[ Textbooks ]

I do quite a bit of work around developing Australian Standards, and also by extension in the quality arena, I help develop processes, procedures, and guidelines.

What I don’t do (currently) is any work on textbooks.  You know, those things we used to refer to when we wanted to (or had to) learn something. 

Standards are not textbooks.  The principle of performance-based Standards is to apply existing knowledge to achieve the best outcome. And yet, the dependence on Standards seems to be creeping into the textbook realm.  Standards are getting longer and more complicated. Maybe because the textbooks are not.