The ASM Education Department offers professional development institutes that aim to improve science teaching. I first heard about these “Bioinformatics Institutes” for educators at the ASMCUE 2008 meeting. The official tag line for this conference for undergraduate educators was “Celebrating 15 years of Teaching Excellence,” however, the subtext that emerged for me was [...]
You’ve got your popcorn. You’ve found a seat. The rustling of cell phones coming out of pockets begins. If you miss this opportunity, you’ll be faced with burning glares. “Turn off your cell phone or die!” It’s become part of our culture to “power down” at the movies. But [...]
This editorial entitled, “Moving Education Forward” was featured in January 2007 issue of the open access journal, PLoS Computational Biology. The education column (also called the “Feature Tutorial”) of PLoS Comp Biol offers a unique venue for publishing and distributing bioinformatics educational resources.
If you have prepared and presented a tutorial for an [...]
BioEdu is a new mailing list created for discussions about bioinformatics education in general as well as the educational resources at Bioinformatics.Org (bioedu.org or edu.bioinformatics.org).
You can subscribe to the BioEdu mailing list through its website:
https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioedu
The July issue of the Journal of Medical Library Association has a special focus on, “Building the role of medical libraries in bioinformatics”. There’s a number of good articles in this issue that describe how University libraries can become more involved in bioinformatics educational initiatives.
From 2004-2006,I obtained two years of funding from the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) at the University of British Columbia to embark on a bioinformatics curricula development pilot project. Through the delivery of hands-on computer based workshops this project entitled, “Applied Workshops in Bioinformatics – Enabling Students to Use Bioinformatics” developed a set of [...]
This image is from an article that I wrote for the bioteach project at UBC called, What is Bioinformatics?
Figure 1. The Wheel of Biological Understanding. System biology strives to understand all aspects of an organism and its environment through the combination of a variety of scientific fields.