This book, the International Handbook on Educational Development in Asia-Pacific, is another in the Springer 'Living reference' series. As with a previously blogged book - the Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education, chapters are progressively uploaded, as they complete the final review and production process.
Caveat: I have a chapter, on Recognition of Current Competency/ Prior Learning, due to be published in this book :)
The book is edited by Wing On Lee, Philip Brown, A. Lin Goodwin and Andy Green. and will eventually be made up of 140 chapters across a range of adult and continuing education sector topics.
At present 7 chapters have been uploaded and going by the previous example (which increased from 15 to 25 chapters in two months, the chapters will take several months to all be uploaded into the volume. A major difference is that the Handbook on Open, Distance and Digital Education's chapters are open access and the International Handbook on Educational Development in Asia-Pacific are not :(
Springer's official description of the differences between 'living and static' reference works is interesting, basically offering access to chapters in advance of the final printed version of the book. However, there is no mention of updates, once the book is finally published.
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