Deliberate Negligence

I'm really enraged that when I deal with certain faculty they claim that the reason why the program is so disorganized and that there is no thematic or affinitive scholarship is because things in the field are changing so fast and that the field is too new. Instructional technology has a record of literature going back to Comenius. It has deep methodological roots in psychology going back to before the Second World War. Not for nothing it is a mature intellectual pursuit. It predates the Internet. It has a huge body of scholarship behind it.

And even if it didn't what is the excuse for a lack of rigor?

What is the excuse for not being serious?

So what gives?