Students, and much of the general public, have trouble understanding what makes a good scientific experiment, and changing that is a major goal of …
Cyberlearning helps students with experimental designRead More
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 …
Mitosis Explored – SimBio’s new tutorial
If you want your students to remember the stages of mitosis, the above mnemonic device would probably be useful. But does rote memorization of the …
Sound Science: Simulating at Blind Youth Slam
One problem with biology labs in general, including our own virtual labs, is that students who can't see are excluded from using them. That's a shame, …
Labs, labs, glorious biology labs
Last week I wrote about the new interactive chapters and SimUText features coming for this fall. We haven't neglected our labs this year either. …
New Release: Finches and Evolution
I'm excited to announce that we've finished a new SimBio Virtual Lab called Finches and Evolution. This major update to our old Islands and Selection …
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 …
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 …
Tools Inhibit Creativity
I'm at the Ecological Society meeting this week, where we're doing a big introduction of our SimUText Ecology chapters. In the cracks I've been going …
