the empire (content vendors) strikes back
More from Learning Impact..... Given the amount of discussion given to open content, it's only fair that the content vendors have an opportunity to present their perspective. So here's some comments from a panel of them.. on self publishing... ...not feeling particularly threatened by open content. Issue has been around for a while. ...open content may have a certain attractiveness in some community colleges ...open content may be a positive for publishers.. may 'surface some particularly gifted' work that publishers can pick up on. ..in academic world, there is real value in 'expert authors' rather than more open content which may have more traction in more journalistic work. on what type of content they think educators want.... eg full courses vs smaller digital assets, Learning objects etc. ...they want it all.... but what they particularly want and need is training on how to use new types of content. ...there maybe a difference between what faculty want and what students want. this needs to be taken into consideration. Interesting study - assumption that kids in college are digital natives is wrong. While they may be comfortable with technology for communications, entertainment, they don't know how to use technology to learn - they learned to learn through books. ...ebooks have a very low takeup. ...students don't read the book any more (whether printed or ebook).. will try to 'google' their way through a course. ...number 1 factor in what determines a student purchase is whether it will be used in the classroom by the teacher - regardless of whether it is electronic or printed. on ad-supported content... not yet tolerated in 'hard-core' teaching content - maybe in ancillary content. on Google... ...it appears that most of the students don't yet have enough skills to discern what is 'good' and what is not - yet. - this needs to be taught.
