Moreover, faculty members have used LectureLinks to see what other faculty members are teaching. Over the twelve months that LectureLinks has been running, it has become the de facto distance learning framework for the medical school curriculum. Design Begun as a series of manually managed HTML files, the LectureLinks framework has been redesigned to make it generalizable and to be usable in any higher education discipline. These scripts automatically update the database and recreate the HTML pages from the database. The database reflects this distinction by representing information about activities separately from resources.
Resources can be local, as in lecture notes, or remote, as in Web sites at other institutions.
Information about the curriculum is entered into the LectureLinks Educational Activity table and updated as courses, lectures, and schedules change. Relevant Web sites are identified either by the students, faculty, or the Office Of Medical Informatics Education and are submitted to the Update database via Web-based forms. The LectureLinks database is comprised of four tables. The Updates database is comprised of one table. A link table joins the resource and activity tables by matching a URL to an educational activity.