These skills will, in turn, be conveyed to students and used for broad replication of the program in other areas. And, with each new development, the benefits multiply. Take, for example, our award-winning partnership with McMaster University to establish a Document on Demand facility in their bookstore. Students choose only the information they need. Participating professors can access the system to keep information current.
Computerized logs ensure that royalties are paid.
Now, building on that experience, a partnership between The Document Company Xerox and the Los Angeles Unified School District is bringing a similar approach into schools at the elementary, middle and secondary level through the Electronic Instructional Materials Project. At the school site, and ultimately even from home, the teacher will use Internet Web Browser technology to select and order all of the specialized instructional materials required. Once teachers and students possess real IT skills they can have the excitement and satisfaction of creating their own course materials from a dozen or more different sources. Even curricula need no longer be carved in stone. With IT they can be changed and distributed instantly, and their relevance maintained.