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Types of content
We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books… is no longer suited to… the conservation of learning. EZRA POUND, CHAPTER ONE, ABC OF READING, 1934
We have explored what it means for something to be a learning technology and have examined briefly the ways in which learning content can be stored and distributed. In this chapter we go on to explore what exactly we mean by learning content, with particular reference to how we source it. The aim of this chapter is not only to describe, however. It is also to suggest a new relationship between L&D and content very different from the traditional one.
First, I aim to describe a landscape in which content is no longer rare. In the words of the American ...
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