Modern-day science is a collaborative enterprise. That's true of most other professions as well, so learning to work and solve problems with others is …
Cyberlearning helps students with experimental design
Students, and much of the general public, have trouble understanding what makes a good scientific experiment, and changing that is a major goal of …
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Evolutionary Evidence
Making biology education software, like teaching, is a passion rather than a path to riches. What drives us is the idea that we can make learning …
Hollywood and Science Education
Many of us use video clips in our classes, both to illustrate ideas and to engage students. As a colleague recently told me, "somehow I can say …
Evolutionary Questions
Losing is Harder Than Gaining On the research side of SimBio, we spend a lot of time writing questions for testing whether students are learning from …
Women, Physics, and Testosterone
Believing is half the battle Although women now make up more than 1/2 of college students in the U.S., there is still a persistent gap in the number …
Educating pre-medical students
The testing dilemma Many of the students in our biology classes want to be doctors, and I recently stumbled on what looks like a major effort to …
Brain Games & Quantitative Biology
Over the past couple decades lots of companies have come out with brain games that are supposed to increase brain function through training. A recent …
Minimally Invasive Education
You're probably aware of the TED talks - short talks by interesting people that then get posted to the web. I came across one recently by Sugata …
