Improving the Creation of Instruction and Learning Materials

Information technology not only provides new options for instruction delivery, it can also help create new instruction and learning materials. (What is the point of electronic delivery if there is nothing to deliver?) In turn, these new methods and tools can address some of the key challenges for higher education, including responding more nimbly to changes in demand and competing with new providers. As before, information technology provides not one or two, but several ways of improving the development of instruction and learning materials. Some options are relatively simple extensions of current methods, while others are novel.