cogdogblog: Faculty ePortfolio

I had thought about something like this for my reappointment review - maybe I'll do it in a couple years for my tenure review!

cogdogblog: Faculty ePortfolio

The Kept-Up Academic Librarian: Survey Indicates Challenges IHEs Face in Distance Education

The Kept-Up Academic Librarian: Survey Indicates Challenges IHEs Face in Distance Education
Nearly 60 percent of senior university administrative officials say obtaining management and faculty support is the greatest challenge in coordinating and conducting distance learning at their schools, according to a new survey. The survey, conducted by Acadient, a leading developer and distributor of online education, also shows that despite these challenges, annual distance learning budgets continue to grow. Nearly 40% of the institutions surveyed spend in excess of $1 million annually on distance education. Read more at:

Educational Technology Conferences for 2004

Educational Technology Conferences for 2004

A solution to the federated search engine problem

Hey, here's a pie in the sky idea to address the federated promiscuity problem - cache the databases and search the caches! Just like Google :-) Once a night, or even once a week, the database vendors offer a cache of each of their products that the federated search engines can pound on to their cyber-heart's content. The links to the real results/articles or whatever can then link back to the live database, and once in there, should the user decide to search further s/he'd only be a lone user affecting the database with a lone search again, just like the good old days :-) Ta-da!

You heard it here first (or maybe you've heard it before, but I don't remember reading it anywhere, so I'm claiming that I made it up) - THIS will be the way this problem is solved.

I don't think I've ever made a prediction so bold - I thought I was going to write that I have goosebumps, but I don't. :-\ Hrrrmmmm, well, I do feel quite sure about it all!

This is in response to a thread posted on the SFX MetaLib-L list (probably need to request a login if you want to read it)