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Friday, February 01, 2002
http://www-class.unl.edu/biochem/url/broken_links.html Broken Links: Just How Rapidly Do Science Education Hyperlinks Go Extinct? John Markwell, Department of Biochemistry and Department of Agronomy & Horticulture, University of Nebraska The use of Internet resources has caused much excitement in the science education community because of their potential to enhance both traditional and distance education. However, such resources are not stable and permanent in the sense of a traditional textbook. Although Internet resources may be freely available, there is a lack of certainty that they will be available for students next month, next semester or next year. We have recently developed three graduate-level biochemistry courses designed for high school teachers. Development of these courses relied heavily upon distributed science education resources. As a consequence, they represented a set of authentic science education resources that could be monitored over time to determine their rate of extinction....
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