ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses primarily on the role of digital media in formal education, it is important to remember that digitizing education is a wider phenomenon than computers in the classroom. There is also a great deal of rich, digitally enabled scholarship now available through the Web, from the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. Parents wonder if our kids are becoming dumber as their phones become smarter. Innovations in the digitization of educational resources raise the larger question of whether knowledge is something that should be hoarded and made financially inaccessible to all but the few or a human right that should be available to anyone with the intellectual skills to benefit from it, regardless of ability to pay. Critics like Peter Drahos, John Brathewaite and David Parry refer to the large publishing conglomerates that control much academic publishing as among the knowledge cartels that are engaging in information feudualism.
