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Monday, August 19, 2002
http://www.ed.psu.edu/acsde/deos/deosnews/deosnews12_1.asp Faculty Development Programs: Teaching professional educators to drink from the fire hose Pat Cravener, University of Texas at Arlington Traditional poetic images of the scholar's life include ivory towers, Muses, still waters, and the Pierian spring (Pope's "a little learning is a dangerous thing . . ."). Rarely, if ever, are fire engines and raging infernos held up as images of teaching and learning. On the other hand, the flow of information on the Net has been described as being like water gushing from a fire hose: "The Internet is causing a revolution in scholarly communication by changing the way research information is produced and disseminated. . . . This enormous flow of information (and junk) is an opportunity and a challenge -- namely, how do you drink from a fire hose?" (Henderson, 1992). It is an apt analogy. Even in the new century, we find (not surprisingly) that many college and university faculty members would rather not grapple with the Internet fire hose, but are content to work with more traditional communications media in their college classrooms....
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