Project Managing E-Learning

Preface

Ten years from now the term e-learning will probably sound as quaint and redundant as “computerization” or “office automation.” I’ll bet that in the last half of the 15th century there were conferences, workshops, and seminars on “MT-Learning,” touting the virtues of movable type to bring knowledge to the masses, hawking new printing technologies, and creating vast new industries for scholars and artisans. Those medieval marketing folks were at least halfway right: Movable type changed everything. It made book production cheaper so that more people could access the written word, it set the stage for the global distribution of knowledge, it opened new markets for writers, and it created a whole new print-based industry that continues to ...