Comment by asdff
7 hours ago
Ed tech has been like this for a while. Software companies just fleeced the crap out of our school. Why are we paying for gsuite when we have office 365? Why am I getting a one drive account and a google drive account and also a drop box account, while the school rolls their own supercomputer? Why are we changing the website where the slides are posted every three years to a new system no one understands for the first semester or three it is rolled out? LMS software will have 100 features but is just used as a dumping ground for slides and also a clunky spreadsheet for grades 99% of times.
All the administration knows is to spend money and try and buy what others are buying without asking if it would actually be useful. Enterprise sales must be the easiest to land I swear.
Because school IT doesn't pay salaries to attract top-tier talent (50-125k, depending on position level?).
So you get the typical (a) IT makes bad decisions or (b) admin is so annoyed at IT's slowness that they override them by buying a vendor solution.
And add in that there's a huge amount of centralization of vendors, especially at the platform solution level.