Barriers
Barriers to the use of study software include:
- Requires hardware, and in some cases electronic access to the content, and neither might be available.
- Some level of skill may be needed to use the hardware required by the software. Learning may be delayed by the need of skills such as typing, using a mouse, pointing on a touch-sensitive screen, or other skills required to handle the hardware.
- Costs of hardware, software, and salaries, combined with low budgets in some schools, may limit the availability and usefulness for the study resources.
- Programs don't communicate together as they could (see Unix philosophy). Self contained programs either don't offer enough features (e.g. calculation of the spacing effect to learn faster) or offer more than they should (Software bloat).
- Content might differ significantly in different countries.
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