Audio debate: books and face to face vs e-learning
This month Stephen and Mark were challenged to a debate on books and face to face vs e-learning. Game on...

When we publised our insight report on "50 ideas for free e-learning" a few months ago, we got a lot of reactions. One in particular caught our eye. David McKnight is CEO of Omnipress, a US company that specialises in print publications to support training events and conferences. He felt we had missed one of the most obvious and effective low-cost training devices: print.

He challenged us to explain why e-learning was better than either print or face to face. We like a challenge, so David, Mark and Stephen got around the skype table to thrash it out.

You can listen to clips from the conversation by clicking play below (give them a few seconds to load). If you want to download the audio, use the links. Download times vary; approximately 15 seconds per clip on a broadband connection. 
 

Introduction

David's challenge and an invite to join us live on April 5th at Hilton Olympia (1 min 11 secs )

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Round 1: face to face vs e-learning

Can e-learning ever surpass a face-to-face experience? (3 mins 1 sec)

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Round 2:  so what's e-learning good for?

 Are there topics for which e-learning beats face-to-face? (2 mins 20 secs)

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Round 3: what about books?

What's the role of print in a low-cost learning environment? (4 mins 30 secs)

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Round 4: Google vs books and writers vs programmers

Is there something to be said for quality vs quantity? And where's the voice of the writer in e-learning?
(5 mins 14 secs)

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David wants some options...

Ok, so where do we go next in e-learning? (5 mins)

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