In the case of the biological sciences, it's not necessarily good news if it isn't accompanied with an increase in the number of available faculty positions (or attractive alternative positions). It just means more postdocs doing 6+ year stints fighting tooth-and-nail for a few positions.
- Carl Fulp
Interactive Web-based science tutorials on science concepts give teachers more meaningful conceptual understanding of what they're going to teach. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_rel...
"Learning that is active – by doing – undertaken within a community and based on individual’s interests, is widely considered to be the most effective. Driven by process rather than content, such an approach helps students become self-directed and independent learners. Web 2.0 is well suited to serving and supporting this type of learning."
- Jason Miller
An article on online tutorials without any links to examples?
- Daniel Mietchen
Daniel: I was struck by that, too. Couldn't even find any of the guy's homepage.
- Jason Miller
Dig into this for the math: investigators illuminate role of evolution in understanding ecology. Keywords: phylogenetic dbs, DNA dbs. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_rel...#mathbio
Dig into this for the math: investigators illuminate role of evolution in understanding ecology. Keywords: phylogenetic dbs, DNA dbs. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_rel...#mathbio
Mathematical models of aerosol transmission of H1N1 virus strongly suggest the usefulness of face masks. Masks are a 'key control measure'. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_rel...#mathbio
It's not about the human+computer interface, about the medicinal and therapeutic use of robots to help patients regain control/use of a limb: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_rel...#mathbio