I’ll go further and suggest that ‘words’ don’t have fixed meanings… that we always negotiate. Where i do think I might stand on thin ice is my suggestion that the word ‘content’ as it’s applied to the idea of ‘what is in a course’ is a widespread usage. I think it is. I have no overwhelming evidence of this other than years of hearing people say things like ‘what’s the content of your course?’ ‘How do i get my content online?’ etc…

I’m not sure i grasp your content as adjective argument… as it feels very noun-like to me. I’m not suggesting we stop creating anything… I’m suggesting the word ‘content’ as it’s applied to education – as in ‘what a course contains’ – is imbued with print sensibilities. The fact we create stuff is great. Lets go into the learning process not knowing what’s going to be created or with what. We can build that ‘content’ together. But this is growth for that word content… a new step in its etymology if we are going to keep using it.