I will say from my perspective (US, Texas, rural area) that the composition people (who are defined as separate discipline over here) are the ones in my department and nationwide who are moving to major new incorporation of technology in the service of writing not only in communication with each other but in promoting knowledge about writing through technology (one example: National Conversation on Writing, http://ncow.org/site/). I think many people are still relying on listservs (which is another interesting issue--as soon as I got into LJ, my interest in participating in listservs declined).
The people I see not doing much are the fairly traditional literature people. And there's a huge complex of issues, including economic (my uni is in very poor part of rural Texas--many of my students only recently were able to get dial up internet--where we live we have radio internet which is lovely but still in development stage). In the US the "last mile" problem affects the universities (who are of course slooooow to change). I've spent a lot of time jumping up and down and agitating on my campus to get people thinking about using wikis and other options online, but there's huge resistance not only from faculty but students.
And a huge part of it, as people said above, is the 'we're so busy we can't have time to learn new stuff.'
I also think though that some of this is tied to the idea some teachers have that they cannot teach anything they're not experts in (that connects to a lot of things, including certain colleague's reluctance to change reading assignments)--I on the other hand have no trouble jumping in with students and saying, hey, we're all learning about this together, let's go!
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I will say from my perspective (US, Texas, rural area) that the composition people (who are defined as separate discipline over here) are the ones in my department and nationwide who are moving to major new incorporation of technology in the service of writing not only in communication with each other but in promoting knowledge about writing through technology (one example: National Conversation on Writing, http://ncow.org/site/). I think many people are still relying on listservs (which is another interesting issue--as soon as I got into LJ, my interest in participating in listservs declined).
The people I see not doing much are the fairly traditional literature people. And there's a huge complex of issues, including economic (my uni is in very poor part of rural Texas--many of my students only recently were able to get dial up internet--where we live we have radio internet which is lovely but still in development stage). In the US the "last mile" problem affects the universities (who are of course slooooow to change). I've spent a lot of time jumping up and down and agitating on my campus to get people thinking about using wikis and other options online, but there's huge resistance not only from faculty but students.
And a huge part of it, as people said above, is the 'we're so busy we can't have time to learn new stuff.'
I also think though that some of this is tied to the idea some teachers have that they cannot teach anything they're not experts in (that connects to a lot of things, including certain colleague's reluctance to change reading assignments)--I on the other hand have no trouble jumping in with students and saying, hey, we're all learning about this together, let's go!