I have had to change not only how I receive information, but how I distribute it as well. As encouragement for my students in 103, I have given them the address to the Forensics Team's Research Page , to get them involved with basic internet research. This means that rather than memorizing vast amounts of potentially useful knowledge, students are being given the tools to find what they need, when they need it. Digital documents are playing a key role in this evolution of education. Perhaps one of the most interesting phenomenon surrounding education and digital documents is the changing role of the instructor.
Instructors are no longer able to simply distribute information.
The classroom is becoming more and more a place of collaboration and cooperative learning. In many instances, teachers are learning as much from their students as they are teaching them. Digital documents are having profound effects on the educational environment, and their influence is not yet complete. We, as students and educators, have much to learn from the changes that have taken place, and the changes yet to come.