A business network does not have to accommodate connection to video and highly graphical Internet resources accessed at the top of the hour by 250 people with only fifty minutes available to work with these resources before another 250 students access them all over again. Third, when a lot of money is involved, networking businesses spring up overnight, and fold just as quickly. So, there must be some way to discern who really has experience and who does not. The demand placed on the network has an important human side. Educators, like everyone in the information-age economy are new to technology and networking.
Training is limited and time to learn is even more limited.
When teachers approach technology with the hope we all have argued for it, the technology must work. To plan instruction around a resource that is unstable or unreliable is instructional suicide. The network must be designed to be fast, reliable and easy to access or educators will find it easy to avoid using it. Anyone would avoid it in similar circumstances. Individual needs must be matched to resources and local decision-makers should have choices for how best to resolve network infrastructure issues.