Introduction

How Is Web-Enabled Learning Like a Hockey Team?

As the World Wide Web evolves, web-enabled learning is also evolving. And this makes learning on demand via the web possible.

Learning on demand centers on a critical moment of need, when a person really wants knowledge about a specific topic to help them through that moment. It is the point at which an individual is unable to move forward until he or she gets answers, and the process whereby an individual obtains these answers is where he or she is literally learning on demand.

In contrast, most education in our schools and workplaces has been designed based on the principle of a preplanned activity, whereby a person is exposed to new knowledge regardless of his or her immediate ...

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