The outdated procurement procedures and multi-year adoption cycles of states and districts are frequently named as primary barriers, but sending open resources to fix a procurement problem is not necessarily going to work. (educationnext.org)
The two are related in that the more people use a new technology the more awareness there is of it and a positive adoption cycle continues until it's mainstream. (davidcummings.org)
And schools that have purchased Common Core - aligned textbooks may have to keep using them until the next adoption cycle. (indianapublicmedia.org)