"This year's educational technology BETT show in London featured a wide variety of blended learning products from most of the major publishers, but Hodder Education and Dynamic Learning has a special interest because it is based on e-book formats and therefore represents another stage in the hybrid development of learning resources... Hodder is doing better than most in getting this right.
"... a refreshingly simple framework for examining existing book-based environments in a digital context, and creating learning materials which can be simply stored in the VLE for re-use as disaggregated content or as stored lesson plans or learning objects.
"Arguably, the transition to e-learning, and beyond that to personalisation, will only be made if the content can be transitioned alongside the process in such a way that both teacher and learner can retain a sense of the structure and shape of the learning process that equates to the security provided by traditional learning materials. If this argument is accepted then Hodder Dynamic Learning deserves a "best of breed" award..."
David Worlock, Chief Research Fellow, Outsell, Inc., Insights, 16/1/08
Reprinted with permission from Outsell, Inc. (www.outsellinc.com)
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