Often a project can be delayed significantly when a faculty member does not know how to complete one step of the process. Inability to use the technology in the classroom. Faculty may have the necessary resources in their offices, but may not have a classroom to teach in where the technology can be used. Or the classroom may be available and faculty do know how to implement the technology in the classroom. Lack of access to production teams that can advise faculty on pedagogy and implementation of technology in the classroom.
Access is necessary both for web-enhanced teaching and for online teaching.
Lack of knowledge about what other faculty are doing to integrate technology in their teaching. Such knowledge is essential both as a sources of ideas and encouragement. It also provides a resource pool that faculty can use as they begin to think about and plan for the use of technology in their classes. Lack of knowledge about what is possible. As technology advances and changes, more solutions, applications, and approaches become available to educators, but faculty are not aware pragmatically of what technological applications can do for them.