tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522311.post1253774940507276757..comments2024-03-12T03:23:42.976-04:00Comments on NeuroDojo: Antiquated, heavy, expensiveZen Faulkeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07811309183398223358noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522311.post-79959484156520959392009-08-10T16:02:07.274-04:002009-08-10T16:02:07.274-04:00The biggest problem with digital anything is the e...The biggest problem with digital <b>anything</b> is the ease of change: in a textbook you often <b>need</b> to go back and know you're seeing <b>exactly</b> what you saw before. Corrections (to errata) and clarifications can be published on-line, but the original text used for learning should be unchanging. (This is especially important in the case of errata.)<br /><br />Another problem is that too much on-line material can vanish, as can your own notes (via various on-line services), while a textbook with notes in can be put away in a bookcase forever (if needed).<br /><br />Of course, the latter doesn't apply to high-school and below, and the former is reduced in importance. (And even for college, anybody who sells their textbook at the end of the class also doesn't get much benefit.)<br /><br />The biggest advantage of on-line class texts is that they can be updated in response to new information more often. This has other risks than mentioned above (<i>e.g.</i> the possibility of introducing errors through misunderstanding of recent research), but it also has major benefits: too often texts are based on 10-year-old research, full of "facts" that have been proven incorrect since then.AKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10905636789614137068noreply@blogger.com