Selection, Incorporation and Assessment of New and Emerging Technologies for Online Learning

This was an interesting class that I took through the Sloan-C workshops last month. Our professor helped us to simplify our selection process by weighing the following benefits of new technologies against possible negative effects of implementation:

Are learning outcomes significantly higher?
Is workload reduced for faculty and students?
Are student and faculty satisfaction increased?
Is the return on investment commensurate with outcomes?
Can student misconceptions or inaccurate information be easily corrected?

Is the new learning mechanism efficient?
Is it too easy for students to become distracted?
Will implementation require too many instructional design assets?
Is retention short or long term?

I also learned to treasure my early adopters and let the "laggards" go their own way.