Failure and success factors of educational ICT projects: a group concept mapping approach

Like most Western countries, the Netherlands invests heavily in stimulating better andmore creative use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in highereducation. Unfortunately, these highly funded initiatives often result in short-lived orlocal successes or outright failures. Identifying determinants for failure and success ofthese innovations might help solve this problem. This colloquium describes an experi-mental study that validated failure and success factors found in an earlier literaturestudy (see Hendriks, Kirschner, Paas & Wopereis, 2005), and identified new factors byusing a group concept mapping technique (Stoyanov & Kirschner, 2004; Trochim,1989).