The politics of virtual learning environments: environmental change, conflict, and e-learning

Introduction Bell & Bell (2005) are right to point out that in order to better understand e-learning we must ‘understand innovation’ itself. Why, then, do innovations sometimes fail? This summary paper discusses the contribution that a study of organisational politics can make to this question, and discusses why proposals which often arise from such study are not implemented as often as they might be in higher education (HE).

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