Textbooks of the future: Will you be buying a product... or a service?

Reflexiones de Michael Trucano sobre los modelos de libros de texto en el blog de nuevas tecnologías en la educación del Banco Mundial. Vía @jordi_a.

These are just five of dozens of such questions that we see ministries of education (and the finance ministries who fund them) asking, and struggling with, around the world as they embark on large scale purchases of digital education content. In almost all cases in which I have been involved, initial discussions almost always consider the procurement of digital learning content to be a product. Over time, however, some places are wondering if in fact it might be more useful to consider such things to be a service, challenging both existing approaches to procurement, and the nature of what it is exactly that schools are buying when they acquire new educational content.