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Initial experiences in developing a chronologically organized digital library for continuing education in biodefense
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Initial experiences in developing a chronologically organized digital library for continuing education in biodefense

Donna D'Alessandro and Michael D'Alessandro
D-Lib magazine, Vol.11(4)
04/01/2005
DOI: 10.1045/april2005-dalessandro
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https://doi.org/10.1045/april2005-dalessandroView
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Abstract

To address an identified but unmet need, a chronologically organized digital library and learning collaboratory has been developed for delivering continuing education to investigators and trainees in the form of biodefense-related news stories, which can be integrated into their daily workflow in a time-efficient basis. We have begun to show how use of this program can broaden and deepen investigators and trainees knowledge and perspective of biodefense-related issues and thus give them a larger context for their work, and how over time these news stories aggregate into an unstructured curriculum of biodefense topics that closely parallels the structured curriculum of a formal biodefense graduate program. This technique of using a chronologically organized digital library dedicated to delivering a discipline-specific unstructured curriculum that unfolds in practice can be generalized to any discipline.
Continuing education Digital libraries News Use

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