ABSTRACT
Tools and technologies strongly influence our habits of thinking, and that should be recognized in the world of educational technology. The situation with regard to educational technologies can be characterized in much the same way as Dijkstra characterized the situation with computers in 1972. As new technologies arrive, new problems also arise. One of those problems concerns information security and privacy in this ever-changing world of educational technologies. In addition to being skilled in developing and deploying effective educational technology solutions and being competent in creating and implementing formative and summative evaluation, educational technologists and instructional designers need to be able to create cost-effectiveness estimates.
