Drosophila: a virtual lab or simulation experiment

Here is an interesting simulation used in Biology classes.

http://www.sciencecourseware.org/vcise/drosophila/



Discover and apply principles of genetic inheritance by studying the inheritance patterns of fruit flies in a virtual environment. You will work on a virtual lab bench from which you can order fruit fly mutants from a web merchant, mate the flies in an incubator, anesthetize flies for observation, examine flies under a microscope, and analyze the data from offspring to determine patterns of inheritance. Your task is to propose hypotheses, design experiments, and analyze and interpret the data from these experiments. Step by step instructions on each page walk you through the simulation activity.



The data from your experiments and your notes can be saved into the online notebook if you login and use the class code your teacher gave to you. Use the information in this notebook to compose your online lab report that will be graded by your teacher. After completing the activity, take the online interactive quiz that will be automatically graded. You will receive a personalized certificate of completion after taking the quiz.



Be aware, the abbreviations for the mutations in this activity are all capitalized to not give you a clue as to its dominance or recessiveness. These are abbreviations of the phenotype and do not follow the traditional genetic abbreviations.

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Links about Learning

I found these here - http://ctl.stanford.edu/Tomprof/links.html#telearn

Tomorrow's Teaching and Learning

A Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence

Describes more than 200 teaching techniques that faculty members

have found to be effective in their courses at the University of

California, Berkeley.

Of particular interest: Explaining clearly, encouraging class

discussion, giving interesting assignments, and much more

http://uga.berkeley.edu/sled/compendium/

On-Line University Teaching Centers in the United States

Listing of all such centers by state

Of particular interest: Lots of practical ideas shared across

disciplines

http://catsic.ucsc.edu/CTE/links.html

Selected Web Educational Resources for Teaching and Learning

Of particular interest: Perspectives on teaching, teaching

strategies, instructional technologies, Integrating the web in your

classroom, copyright issues.

http://www.nv.cc.va.us/loudoun/teachexl/links.htm

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

International research center for research and policy studies

about teaching

Of particular interest: The Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship

of Teaching and Learning (CASTL)

http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/

The Stanford University Learning Laboratory

Projects and programs on the improvement of learning

Of particular interest: CREATE (Creating Research Examples

Across the Teaching Enterprise)

http://sll.stanford.edu/index.shtml

Faculty Development Associates

Online Resources

http://www.developfaculty.com/online/index.html

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Instructional Design Theories

As this site about ID Theories states on it's homepage:

It is about how to help people learn better.

[Which is all that matters in the end anyway.]



There's a wealth of information on this site. Some of the things that are covered at bulleted below. I particularly like the Electronic Performance Support System, which I might adopt a version of for my own company.

• Instructional-Design Theories and Models, Volume I:
  An Overview of their Current Status, (affectionately called the Green
  Book). Publ: 1983 by Erlbaum Assoc.
  Information about Instructional Design Theories and Models, Volume II:
  A New Paradigm of Instructional Theory, (affectionately called the
  Green Book II). Publ. 1999 by Erlbaum
  Assoc.
  Some modules about basic methods of instruction, written by Charles M.
  Reigeluth.
  Links to other sites related to instructional theory.
• 
  A link to an Electronic Performance Support System to help teachers select
  and apply new approaches to instruction for their own teaching (Not operational
  yet).
• 
  Comments about instructional theories from visitors to this web site.

testing performance

one of the things...

Theory and Practice of Online Learning

I found this great resource from the Athabasca School in Canada.  http://cde.athabascau.ca/online_book/

Starting with a comprehensive summary of relevant educational theory, the book revisits, in a lively way, the great dichotomies that have marked the history of open and distance learning. How should we balance the social and individual aspects of study? What is the right mixture between independent and interactive learning? Should courses be paced for cohorts of students, or unpaced for the benefit of individuals? Succeeding chapters give helpful and well-informed guidance on vital aspects of online learning practice, such as copyright, multimedia editing, supporting asynchronous discussion, library support, and quality assurance. The concept of the value chain is used to set online learning in the context of today's competitive educational marketplace in order to help institutional leaders decide where their own advantage might lie.