Thanks for all the positive comments about these posts, and especially to Steve Weissman, who contributed this short summary, which has a pleasing conciseness I failed to achieve in the original pieces:
‘… KM is a business practice, e-learning a teaching (learning) technique, online publishing a distribution mechanism. The commonality? The underlying enabling technologies for each are [...]
Category Archives: e-learning
Response to Online publishing, e-learning and knowledge management parts 1 & 2
Online publishing, e-learning and knowledge management – Part 2
The only thing holding us back from more convergence between e-learning, online publishing and knowledge management, is the lack of mutual understanding.
Online publishing and e-learning: divided by a common language?
What’s an LMS? Depends who you ask. If I’m talking to my online publishing friends it’s a Library Management System, but my e-learning friends think it’s something different altogether. Similar, but different. You can’t help noticing that people who work in closely related digital industries don’t seem to swap notes much before generating new TLA’s [...]
E-learning and online publishing converge beyond the book
We are beginning to see more extending of the use of texts online for learning, and the emergence of areas of convergence between e-publishing and e-learning.
Think Rapid: more choice for online publishers
Online publishing is an evolving industry, and an important aspect of that evolution is the ability of the supplier community to innovate. This means not only technology innovation but innovation in process and business models; the ability to offer publishers greater efficiencies in the publishing process and more choice.
To date, publishers have had a rather [...]

Richard Padley
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