DET/CHE 2019

"Work fast and break things" - we've heard this valley mantra so many times in the last decade so as to make it an embarrassing cliché. And it is an approach which is antithetical to the maintenance of the educational enterprise.We make great effort to sustain continuity of experience and process for students (and educators and staff), which means the introduction of innovation, novelty, and risk in the IT enterprise supporting education can be not only disruptive, but severely damaging, with repercussions that stretch far beyond the boundaries of the technology domain. In this discussion, we present some of the challenges of integrating better practices of innovation, experimentation, differentiation and risk into the risk-averse culture of educational technology.