The proposed NLII must develop prototypes that exhibit clear advantages to education's most influential stakeholders and stockholders, and it must involve higher education's faculty in the process. Prototypes that can be transferred on a national scale, whether they already exist or must be created from scratch, are likely to be assembled from a complex mix of components involving disciplinary consensus building, pedagogical innovation, attention to object architecture standards, and various educational and economic assessments. To do this, the NLII must first develop a consensus blueprint and coordinate the contributions of participating stakeholders. The features of a blueprint for prototypes can be formulated as action items, to include those articulated as follows. Target National Educational and Economic Problems.
Information technology is an amplifier of human capacity and ability.
It is not a solution to all of education's problems. Nor is it a replacement for the faculty, the educational institution, or the publisher. Information technology can be used to empower both learner and mentor with the latest tools of the trade used to advance the subject and to solve problems. Modularize Instruction and Learning. Flexibility is a major asset of information technology.