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As lovely as they are to behold and consume, the million-dollar question is whether Inkling books provide more value to the learning process than print books.

The company addresses this in different ways, allowing for easy searching, for social-networked note-taking and highlighting to allow for robust group discussions online, and quizzes and self-assessment tools so learners know when they’re ready to move on to the next chapter.

a ‘tension’ between an ethos of control, hierarchy, competition and commodification, i.e. education, while in stark contrast a web 2.0 ethos of sharing, collaboration and community. In the end an almighty head-on collision.

whether you need SCORM:Do you need to control learner access to courseware, track learner progress, or monitor the effectiveness of your e-learning content? Do you want to be able to control the learner’s path through the content in some way? Do you plan to develop content in house and also purchase content from one or more third-party content vendors? Do you plan to use the content for multiple new audiences in the future? Do you plan to reuse parts of the content in future courses? Are you planning to redistribute or sell the content to anotherorganization?

This is the moment when we must make the necessary pedagogical and institutional adjustments to a pervasively connected culture.

knowledge is freely available, but the mentoring which makes that knowledge apprehensible and useful remains a precious resource.

Yet, even with this embarrassment of riches, we still yearn for the opportunity to conspire, to breathe the same air as our mentor, while they, by the fact of their presence, transmit mastery.