Faculty and students will develop it, and even more people might want to buy the donor's equipment. Of course not. It is, after all, only a machine. Death Many reasons can be ascribed for the ,failure of computers to live up to its promise, but I think the chief one is that it's very hard to write software that can be as flexible, creative, and caring as a good human teacher. The money is better spent, I think, on real teachers rather than mechanical ones.
Computers are sexy.
According to him, with the introduction of computers in any university department, the equivalent of one full-time faculty is lost from his calling, seduced by the computer. The professors can spend oodles of hours creating programs without any sure payoff, either in proven instructional effectiveness, or in job promotion or tenure. Time is a huge investment, at a ratio of 100 to 600 production hours for every one courseware-hour. Hidden Expenses - One of the big outlays for computers is providing the infrastructure to make it all work. Putting in wiring and furniture and security is backbreaking.