I recently read this Idea Paper about “Student Goal Orientation, Motivation, and Learning” by Marilla D. Svinicki. It’s interesting to think about what motivates the students we teach. I think this paper summarizes nicely how to reach out to the majority of students:
Prioritize Learning
Expect Success
Make Your Class a Safe Place
Encourage Community
Offer Choices
Be a [...]
One of the easiest things to do to improve as an educator is to watch others and take what you can to use in your own classrooms.
Recently, we hosted a professional development conference for BC high school teachers called, “It’s Your Experiment!” The workshop was part of our two day conference and aimed to [...]
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 [...]
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.