Looking Ahead: Online Publishing as a Learning Environment

• Online alteregos: Readers' avatars may function as ongoing resumes online
  
  
• New CE publishing techniques may turn query-based publishing on its head
  
  • a query-based front end puts questions first instead of last
    
  • queries up front offer advanced placement into data rather than after-the-fact proof of learning
    
  • success of online, query-based learning structures indicate that custom access to databases will become more and more personalized
    
    
• Finer chunking of information means customization
  
  • X-refs, links between queries and data become very significant
    
  • Garden of Eden problem: we need to name hypertext chunks so we can handle them in new systems such as query-based publishing and DOI
    
  • logged bipolar links and buy functions attached to data chunks impose the structure for commercial success
    
    
• Content will learn from its readers and adapt as it is used and accessed
  
  
• Watch for further integration of business and content
  
  • Win/Win interactive advertising model
    
  • enabling students to license access to themselves
    
    
• We'll know we've arrived when readers can get paid royalties for valuable contributions