Book Review – Knowledge Education and Learning: e-Learning in the Knowledge Society

Director of the Knowledge Lab there. He is an important continuing contributor to the journal, Cybernetics and Human Knowing, on many aspects of knowledge media and society. What Qvortrup provides In the field of open and distance learning, despite the dictum that 'there is nothing more practical than a good theory, ' there actually are very few practical theories of any depth. There is an overwhelming predominance of practical persons who get things done with despatch, but who have little understanding of what their ventures are really doing to people, and, indeed, "don’t want to know " because that would make decisions slower and more painful. Our tools and media are now becoming really potent for changing people – and for doing so all over the world. This should give us pause. Qvortrup is particularly interesting because he does make a good attempt at developing deep understanding of how knowledging (sic) proceeds and carries that understanding over into practical advice for e-Learning developers. He offers a distinctive and valuable European perspective to enable us to understand just how we live in a 'knowledge society ' and how the development of a knowledge society implies the need for life-long learning with particular kind