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I mean in most cases of every industry the people who pay the money and the actual people who use the software are different people.
by bryanrasmussen 2y ago
I mean in most cases of every industry the people who pay the money and the actual people who use the software are different people.
- nine_k 2y agoThis is correct. But when a supermarket chain decides which software to use for point-of-sale machines, the chain's bottom line directly depends on how well that software fits the task. Even if the top brass never operates these machines, their bonuses directly depend on that software working well. The disconnect between boards of education and teachers and students is much larger. There is no easy way to measure the efficiency, it's hard to ascribe the influence of the software choice to the educational outcomes, and the outcomes themselves are years apart from the point of choice. The best the system us capable of weeding of is outrageously bad software, such that induces mass protests from teachers, students, and parents, media coverage, etc. Choosing between barely satisfactory and outstandingly excellent, hardly.
- jrm4 2y agoSpot on. Additionally, what makes it SO BAD for us (I work in higher ed) is the "bundling." It would have been madness to be like, your chalkboards and gradebooks and chairs all must be approved by and come from ONE company, and so you have to do everything their way. But that's where we are now.