Digital Maturity as a response to Disruptive Technology
I'm sure that anyone who works in EdTech has, at some point in their career been confronted with the idea that technology has in some way disrupted education. In some senses that's been a good thing in situations where learning and teaching practice have been found to stagnate, providing the proverbial kick-in-the-pants that we all need from time to time. But the idea of educational disruption has come to take on a new meaning in the past few years. My ongoing reading in the work of Tinto (1993) and a recent conversation with Dr. Azumah Dennis and @DrJaneCullen of the Open University have given me thought to consider, what is it that's actually been disrupted? And, if there has been disruption, how long will the disruption last? So I was intrigued when I read Myers (2021) take on "Digital Maturity". ( " Preventing disruptive technologies from disrupting education " by opensourceway is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 .) By defini...