[BioEdu] Open-access course materials

[Tan Tin Wee]

Sorry, guys,
the S-star.org main machine is undergoing revamp of server
and moving. Our redundancy across many locations e.g. in Taiwan
will serve you the same stuff.

At the risk of jumping the gun (apologies to S* council members
who are on this list) the Secretariat and the Education Office
are planning, subject to approval of S* council of Stanford,
Karolinska, Uppsala, USydney, UCSD, Macquarie, SANBI, NUS professors,
to relaunch the bioinformatics intro as stage 1, plus online
practicals as stage 2 and a miniproject as stage 3, this being the
sixth year since s-star alliance was launched, and the 7th S* course.

Note also that S* certificates cost us money to print,
assemble and mail deliver to participants, and so it is
not entirely free, though the courseware currently is
as a service to the community. Whether it will continue
to be completely gratis will be a subject which the council
will deliberate over.


bestrgds
Tin Wee

--
TAN Tin Wee
S* Alliance Secretariat
National University of Singapore

Also allied to this is an effort on bioinformatics and Grid
Computing certification in Singapore's National Grid Office.





J.W. Bizzaro wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I've been getting some inquiries about the availability of gratis, 
> open-access course materials that can be (re-)used in developing a 
> bioinformatics course.  I started putting together a list below of 
> resources that I'm aware of.  I'm hoping that we could expand upon it 
> and maybe put it on a wiki page (the list archives are also cached by 
> Google).
> 
> Bifx-specific:
>  http://bioinformatics.ca/
>  http://s-star.ym.edu.tw/ (s-star.org not working?)
>  http://bioportal.cnb.uam.es/eLearn/
>  http://www.ember.man.ac.uk/
> 
> Related:
>  http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biology/index.htm
>  http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biological-Engineering/index.htm
>  http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/index.htm
>  http://www.swc.scipy.org/
> 
> There are also various tutorials out there from places like NCBI, EBI, 
> EMBL, etc.  Any recommendations would be appreciated, but they need to 
> have an open-access license (e.g., GNU FDL or Creative Commons).
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff