Re: Article in "Inside HigherEd"

[Jan Velterop <velteropvonleyden@btinternet.com>]

Ken Coates's piece is not even called Information Overload, but 
Knowledge Overload. This view of information and knowledge being 
an overload, a burden, one encounters often. But knowledge 
overload is a bit of a difficult notion for me. Though I do see 
the problem of being able to deal with all the information and 
knowledge that comes at us.

Instead of seeing the increasing amounts of knowledge available 
as a problem, we should start seeing it as a serious opportunity. 
If not, we should simply stop acquiring knowledge. Nobody in his 
or her right mind would argue for that. But stopping to publish 
knowledge that has been acquired is equally absurd. But of course 
the tools to be able to navigate the ocean of knowledge need to 
be built. That's one of the tasks we hope the Concept Web 
Alliance and its members can take on. More on the Concept Web 
Alliance here:

http:// conceptweblog.wordpress.com/

Jan Velterop


On 23 Mar 2009, at 23:21, Joseph Esposito wrote:

> See Ken Coates's piece in "Inside HigherEd":]
>
> http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/03/23/coates#Comments
>
> The title is "Knowledge Overload."
>
> My question, which I have been asking for 5 years now, is, Why does
> anybody
> believe that access is the key problem?
>
> Joe Esposito