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Sunday, June 05, 2005
Academic Public Service Web Sites and the Future of Virtual Academic Public Service - Ellen Cohn and Bernard Hibbitts, Innovate Online
Teaching, research, service: In the traditional triumvirate of faculty workloads, service is almost always defined as a noninstructional activity external to the institution, and it is almost never associated with the Internet. Ellen Cohn and Bernard Hibbitts ask why that is the case, given that university Web sites can be used for the public good. The authors argue for the recognition of virtual public service and examine two successful academic public service Web sites at the University of Pittsburgh. One site provides up-to-the-minute news on legal issues and research; the other makes available thousands of lectures on public health topics. Both are open-access and serve a global audience. While outlining the criteria for such sites and the challenges of maintaining them, Cohn and Hibbitts make a persuasive case for an expanded definition of public service.
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