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Obstacles

Obstacles are the roadblacks in the way of effective Web pedagogy. These range from buzzword fixation in industry to textbook models that hold new editions as a higher good than accuracy.

Obstacles are perhaps the greatest roadblock since they are not things we can correct by mending our ways. Rather we need to correct them by mending the ways of others or by doing end-runs around them. This either means convincing textbook publishers, adminstrators, and industry pundits that our solutions are the right ones, or going it alone and hoping people take the hint.

It does seem that the industry pundits are more on the ball when it comes to Web design than other potential naysayers. Certainly ESPN and most of the other sports sites are more in line with current and future standards than any textbook publisher or academic software provider out there (perhaps it is one again the jocks getting the best stuff?). The academy should be leading industry not following it. We should be teaching students what they will need to know tomorrow, not yesterday.

The Obstacles to Effective Web Pegagogy

• [Publish or profit: the simple facts of the ublishing industry.]
• [Buzzword addiction.]
• [What is standard is industry is not the industry standard.]
• [Evolving standards that conflict with themselves and each other.]
• [Forgiving Web browser technology.]
• [The Balkanization of the academic world.]
• [Web design as a sub-discipline.]