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Rosenberg, M. (2001) e-Learning: Strategies for delivering knowledge in the digital age. McGraw-Hill, p. 11.

“So when we have a learning need that requires instruction, we can use training, and when there is a learning need that more appropriately require information, we can use knowledge management (KM).”

There is an important distinction here that is often looked in the traditional classroom. For centuries the traditional classroom has been instructor centered with the focus of learning on the delivery of the material by the instructor, with the intense (hopefully) desire that the students grasped the material. Careful thought should be given to whether this is material that needs to be presented, or material that learners need to know how to access, interpret, and make application. Inherent in many subject domains will be the need for both. That precipitates the occasion then for the subject matter expert, the curriculum developer, and the instructional designer to work collaboratively.