ABSTRACT
For thousands of years, the primary vehicle for disseminating knowledge was the spoken word. This changed over years, shifting higher education from dependency on spoken words to written words. Higher education and education more generally is ever so slowing moving away from printed books and periodicals because these are expensive and bulky. All courses can benefit from applying technology to manage routine activities such as distributing course materials and collecting homework assignments. To improve learning and reduce costs, technology must be applied to the learning process, and the amount of technology that can be used effectively depends on the course. The improvements in quality and access, which can be achieved by transforming traditional textbooks into dynamic, technology-based learning tools, are relatively easy to envision. Like creating high-tech reading materials, changing how knowledge is transferred from faculty to students must be done so it costs less and, more importantly, so students learn more.
