However, if the technology needs to be adapted, the receiving person must go at least half-way in producing the adaptations. An outsider cannot know exactly what is needed at the new site, and the receiving person may not have all the skills necessary to make progress. Vision and support are both required. In this way they maintained contact with the student body and could respond quickly to fix errors in the software. Teaching technology can only take root at a new site if it addresses real student needs.
Students seem to decide very quickly how best to invest time.
Consequently teaching software must be Friendly. It should preferably do something that cannot be done in any other way. They cannot know what students will find hard because they are the sort of people who learn quickly and have good strategies for coping with new knowledge. Therefore the views of students must be sought often and honestly while introducing new teaching approaches. It is not enough to take a survey at the end of each semester - daily attention to student comments and anecdotal evidence is needed.