Good Enough Technology and Learning – Inside Higher Ed

While the Wired article does not mention education, it seems to me that learning technology is a perfect example of this trend. Students, and then faculty, will gravitate to tools that provide 80 percent of the benefits for 20 percent of the costs (the 80/20 Pareto principle). The danger in not recognizing this desire among our learners for ubiquity, ease of use, and continuous availability is that they will migrate to platforms and tools that are not provided and supported by our institutions.
(Link: Good Enough Technology and Learning – Inside Higher Ed)