Some Technical Ideas that will support better education activities (research, authoring, pre-planned instructor-led instruction, more spontaneous live-instruction, more flexible self-paced instruction) on the web (i.e. on the Internet) are :

  • 10.08.14-jgw: online dictionaries need to add optional cross references to digital textbooks which use a word identically or SIMILARLY (a serious "fuzzy" indexing problem!) to the standard dictionary definitions, whatever dictionary it may be. jgw100814
  • 10.08.14-jgw: search engines need to have an additional type of "advanced search" which searches for "similar" or "related" items to those the end-user has highlighted in a digital textbook (eBook).  jgw100814