Today schools still rely mostly on printed paper and closed digital resources while strongly cautioning their teachers and students in using the open Net . For the ten-plus years since the Net began expanding from a small education resources network into multiple sectors and eventually mammoth information repositories, educators have been concerned about the challenge of finding the best learning resources within the vast open content. This perceived challenge has been a main reason that education has kept online materials at arms length.

Meanwhile, along with the much-lamented educational "junk" that poured into the Net, arguably most of the knowledge the academy exists to teach went online where these digital resources are open to all, free - and are usually better kept up-to-date and more compelling than in their printed counterparts.

Net native methods have emerged that make online content findable. Outside of education, powerful tools have been developed that could direct students and teachers to the best content for precisely what they are trying to locate. This white paper describes those tools - forming the new findability discipline - and outlines how educators can help make findability work for learning. When the process moves to mobile, you will find what you want to learn is in your hand.

Read this white paper online, or download it as a PDF.

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