EdNA Online Passes 1.6M Milestone
EdNA,
Aug 25, 2004
This is good stuff and I don't want to sell the accomplishment short. But. "EdNA Online has passed the 1.6 million milestone for quality assured educational materials and training resources by adding ABC Online, PictureAustralia and the Culture and Recreation Portal to its searchable repositories." Ever since MERLOT signed its deal with WebCT I have been a bit bothered. After I questioned the agreement, Tom wrote in to say, "Merlot, on the other hand is in competition with semantic web development and other vendors of search vehicles, including Google, all of whom are getting more universal." There is a truth to this, of course - we always explain the need for repositories by saying that you get x number of thousands of hits on Google. But this suggests a differentiation between MERLOT and EdNA and Google. What is it? Faceted search? Federated search? Quality assurance? I wouldn't bet the farm on out-Googling Google for any of these. Play with the EdNA interface for a bit - perhaps do a search on 'downes' as I did - and you'll see what I mean. So - and here I'm thinking aloud - maybe the empasis on search is the wrong thing. Maybe we should be thinking more in terms of a system or a network... or something.
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