Educational technology: the dilemma

Some thoughts and reflections about this field of tech. It is still dominated by learning management systems with a highly modular architecture which is able to integrate a wide variety of functionality.
Outside this ecosystem there are also a lot of tools, for instance the offering of voting tools is almost endless. very often not always, due to different reasons, these tools have a better usability and ux design than in-house technology. but from the perspective of the institution there are some barriers to integrate the technology:
– costs
– data protection issues
– sustainability
the other option is to invest in open source technology. however open source activities are when needed not ready at hand, they are too small and have not enough money.