More fundamentally, both programs are predicated on the notion that getting connected can dramatically change how and what one does within an organization, whether it's selling, marketing, and customer support in a business environment or curriculum, assessment, and research in a learning environment. The business world has a bottom-line orientation that is easier to quantify and assess. It has competitive realities that drive faster and more thoroughgoing implementations of technology. It is more willing to spend money on staff development and building of internal skills sets. Educational effectiveness is a hazier target and its definition is hotly contested .
Education has fewer resources and moves more slowly.
Most unfortunately, it too much ignores staff development. One federal study recommends that 35 percent of school-technology budgets be devoted to teacher training. The national average is about 5 percent, woefully inadequate. You're interested in the wholly new opportunities that digital technology will provide, rather than in re-implementations of existing ideas and practices. In the late eighties and early nineties, large American corporations hemorrhaged money on technology with questionable return on their investment.