Category Archives: e-learning

Penguin opts for Apps

March 24, 2010 – 3:08 pm

Following on from Richard Padley’s recent post on apps vs e-books, it has emerged that one publisher at least, Penguin Books, has made the choice. Up until now the battle has been pretty one-sided, with both Apple and Amazon releasing their e-Books using the no frills e-Pub format. However, Penguin has now planted its flag [...]

By Alex Blackman | Also posted in E-books, Mobile, Publishing business models, Technology | Post a comment | 2 comments

Response to Online publishing, e-learning and knowledge management parts 1 & 2

December 23, 2009 – 4:38 pm

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 [...]

By John Helmer | Also posted in Online Publishing Market, Publishing business models, Technology | Post a comment | 0 comments

Online publishing, e-learning and knowledge management – Part 2

December 17, 2009 – 10:17 am

The only thing holding us back from more convergence between e-learning, online publishing and knowledge management, is the lack of mutual understanding.

By John Helmer | Also posted in Online Publishing Market, Publishing business models, Technology | Post a comment | 6 comments

Online publishing and e-learning: divided by a common language?

September 21, 2009 – 8:46 am

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 [...]

By John Helmer | Post a comment | 2 comments

E-learning and online publishing converge beyond the book

July 13, 2009 – 10:53 am

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.

By John Helmer | Also posted in E-books, Online Publishing Market | Post a comment | 1 comment

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