Good bye binders, hello IPads?

The instructional design group at my work brought up an interesting proposal today. Most trainings the ID group creates for us includes a facilitator guide. Some trainers choose to print the facilitator guide out and stick it in a binder. Other trainers choose to look at it straight from the computer. The issue that can arise from printed facilitator guides, is the chance of updates happening. To fix this from happening, the instructional design team feels that the use of technology, such as an IPad, would be beneficial. This way they could make updates and the trainers would immediately have access to the most recent facilitator guide.

I personally feel this would not be a beneficial investment for my department. The reason being that trainers should not be relying heavily on facilitator guides anyway. They should be studying the material before the training class starts. If an update does need to happen, emails have worked great so far. Why invest money into technology we do not need when there is other technology that would benefit the classroom even more!