I'm in a dilemma about the use of electronic material vs traditional hard copy versions in our courses. As an IT school, we tend to use mini-lectures and lots of hands on computer time to re-enforce the topics covered in those lectures. Books are rarely used during the actual class time, and support materials are used occasionally to reference tables of information or clarify a topic. Our textbooks are used by the students outside of class to look up ways of doing things but are not generally read cover to cover. So based on this I feel we could successfully incorporate electronic materials into a lot of our courses. This allows the instructor to easily add extra material, internet articles, update material as software changes slightly etc. Plus electronic material is easily searched to find the applicable information. But a majority of instructors are against its use, saying it is difficult to learn from. I would agree if our courses were highly re-enforced by reading the text, but again I don't believe they are. Comments? Thanks Jeff