(from Inside Higher Ed) The breakdown of an edtech professional's home Nest thermostat over Thanksgiving weekend got him wondering "if we are adequately tallying the costs — as well as the benefits — of digital learning."
Wrote Joshua Kim of Dartmouth and Georgetown universities, "Has the move towards relying on digitally enabled platforms at every level of higher education, from administrative functions to instruction, made our schools more or less resilient? What are we trading in institutional brittleness to gain the advantages of moving our capuses from analog to digital? How often do our core enabling campus technologies, the equivalents of edtech thermostats, end up not working?"
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