Change: Transition, process or both?

How do you think about change?

With all the computer applications available to the user, people have to make many adjustments to use computers effectively. But how much can you take at once? I remember the different workshops we use to give faculty, covering different applications every time, and I wonder if for some people just being accountable for one would have been a lot better and easier. Using computers was like a panacea and now teachers and professors had to be experts with this new tool.

The transition from paper and pencil to keyboard and software wasn't that easy to some. I wonder if it was because, before the keyboard and software, they also had to get used to the new media. How "friendly" or similar to what they knew was this new gadget?

Change always takes time; it is not a one-dimensional process. Building pre-requisite knowledge and acquiring confidence also takes time.