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Teaching Resources

On the social issues of education

• Class Matters. Why Won’t We Admit It?
• NY Times, Education
• Hack Education blog

Teaching Evolution

• http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/affective/evolution.html structured academic controversies
• http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=5787
• http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/
• http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/ns.cum.l.html It in the Cards;
• http://www.lessonplansinc.com/biology_lesson_plans_darwin_evolution.php
• http://leighvanvalen.com/songs/

General Science-related sites

• AAAS Blogs
• scale of universe (good animation)
• TED
• World Science Festival Video
• youtube.com (You just have to search for the key words)
• iBioMagzine
• Peer-to-Peer University

On teaching methodology and education practices

• Larry Cuban on teaching
• Flipped classroom
• HHMI bio 2020
• teaching tips at UTC
• UNCC resources
• GMU
• Derek Bruff: Teaching with classroom response systems
• Clickers in the large classroom: current research and best-practice tips, JE Caldwell - Life Sciences Education, 2007
• Classroom response systems: A review of the literature, C Fies… - Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2006 - Springer
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_inflation
• BIO2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists. National Academies report (2003) encouraging interdisciplinary education (http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309085357)
• Vision and Change Transforming Undergraduate Education in Biology: Mobilizing the Community for Change (http://www.visionandchange.org/) Reports on conversations to reinvigorate undergraduate biology education.
• Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians (HHMI and AAMC) (http://www.hhmi.org/grants/sffp.html) Report on both medical school and undergraduate competencies for educating physicians.
• Transforming Agricultural Education for a Changing World. (http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12602) National Academies Report encouraging move towards broader education for agriculture students.
• RER
• Writing by Paul Trout
• Bio 2020, Jason Miller
• Avoid BS in Science

On the nature of education

• Plato's Academy and higher learning
• Confucius
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_education
• http://research-education-edu.blogspot.com/
• http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Philosophy-Education.htm

General teaching sites

• iTunes U
• Videolectures
• Bioquest
• MIT Open course ware
• Scitable by Nature Education
• A Malcolm Campbell's site
• Jonathan Visick's workshops
• Purdue Computational thinking
• Geospiza Teaching Materials
• Biology animation collections
• Biology in Motion
• Khan Academy
• Animation collection, Sumanas

Integrated Science

• Integrated Science program at Princeton
• Integrated Science program at Virgina Tech
• Integrated Science program at Northwestern University
• JMU program
• Integrated Science: New Approaches to Education, book by Michael C. Shaw
• Integrated Science [Book] by Bill W Tillery, Eldon Enger, Frederick C Ross
• The sciences: an integrated approach [Book] by James S. Trefil, Robert M. Hazen
• The Joint Science Department at Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scipps Colleges

Views on integrated science:

• Introductory Science and Mathematics Education for 21st-Century Biologists William Bialek and David Botstein, Science 6 February 2004: 788-790.
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC437648/ Gross's countering view.Quite interesting.
• http://www.sciencemag.org/content/303/5659/788/reply, José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho's view
• http://www.nature.com/nrm/journal/v7/n11/pdf/nrm2023.pdf, Wingree, Botstein, 2006

Integrative biology and the future of biology

• what is integrated biology
• Physical Biology by Rutherford

Genomics, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology

• A list of bioinformatics courses & degress
• Nimbios on computational thinking
• Bioinformatics @ Lewis and Clark
• Bioinformatics Algorithm, Jones & Pevzner
• http://wiki.bioinformatics.org/Bioinformatics_(book_list)
• Bioinformatics Sequence and Genome Analysis, DW Mount
• Molecular Bioinformatics 2001, Uppsala University
• Biostatistics and R, UW Deepanyan Sarkar
• Batzoglou's course site
• Wei Wang's comp biol courses
• Pevsner's Bioinformatics course site
• DNA Interactive, CSHL
• Dynamic Gene Structure, CSHL
• Genomics education partnership at WUSTL
• Genomics @ Davidson

• NGS sequence analysis, MSU
• Biostar

Systems Biology

• Harvard MCB 195
• Toronto, Dep of Cell & Systems Biology

• Wind map, an example of a dynamic system

Quantitative and Mathematical Biology

• SCOPE
• Mathbench
• SMB
• Nimbios @ UTK

Advanced levels

• CSHL CCB course
• Eduardo Sontag's site

Structure analysis

• Gale Rhodes, Protein structure, biochemistry
• SWISS Molder, Adam Godzik

Molecular Evolution

• Paul Lewis, Phylogeny
• Holder, Phylogeny
• Molecular.Evolution.org
• Woodhole workshop
• Bodega Applied Phylogenetics Workshop

Simulation tools for teaching evolution

• boxcar2d
• simulate species evolution
• Avida-ED

evolution games

Synthetic Biology

• Leukippos Blog

Advanced topics:

• Spielman's spectral graph
• Chung's spectral graph
• Srihari's machine learning

Biology course materials

• Bioquest

Undergraduate programs related to computational biology

• Wyne state?
• USC

Mentoring

• Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering (1997)

R

• youtube R tutorials
• Linear regression in R

Miscellaneous

• How to present a paper, Ashwin Ram
• How to present a paper,

K12 education

• Waldorf mehod, NYTimes
• Waldor education on wikipedia
• Robert Hairston, Cedar Grove, Atlanta

Some kits

• DNA Chip genes to diesease kit

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