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Desirable attributes of public educational websites.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  16190287     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Certain attributes are particularly desirable for public educational websites, and websites for ethics education in particular. Among the most important of these attributes is wide accessibility through adherence to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards for HTML code. Adherence to this standard produces webpages that can be rendered by a full range of web browsers, including Braille and speech browsers. Although almost no academic websites, including ethics websites, and even fewer commercial websites are accessible by W3C standards, as illustrated by the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science <http://onlineethics.orsg>, even websites created on limited budgets and with an undergraduate student staff can fulfill these standards. Other desirable attributes, such as provision of annotation for all links and the use of annotated links to give the user alternate ways of ordering and organizing content, are important for making full use of the educational possibilities of hypermedia for websites.
Authors:
Caroline Whitbeck
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.; Review    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Science and engineering ethics     Volume:  11     ISSN:  1353-3452     ISO Abbreviation:  Sci Eng Ethics     Publication Date:  2005 Jul 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2005-09-29     Completed Date:  2005-11-07     Revised Date:  2006-11-15    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9516228     Medline TA:  Sci Eng Ethics     Country:  England    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  463-76     Citation Subset:  E; IM    
Affiliation:
Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science, Philosophy Department, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7119, USA. caw@onlineethics.org
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Computer-Assisted Instruction / methods*
Engineering / education,  ethics
Ethics, Professional / education*
Humans
Hypermedia / standards*
Internet / standards*
Science / education,  ethics
United States
Comments/Corrections
Comment In:
Sci Eng Ethics. 2005 Jul;11(3):477-9   [PMID:  16190288 ]

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