http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning A blog for students, teachers and researchers on the use of technology in teaching, learning and research in the biosciences. http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/so_long_and_thanks_for Well, this has been coming for some time, and I have been ignoring it.... It is... Fri, 04 Apr 2014 02:39:09 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/so_long_and_thanks_for 2014-04-04T02:39:09Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/email_the_zombie_technology_that This coming weekend I will be participating in The Dark Art of Dark Social: Ema... Wed, 06 Nov 2013 02:52:28 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/email_the_zombie_technology_that 2013-11-06T02:52:28Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/stop_press_mac_fan_boy Over the years a number of people commented that I’m a bit of a “Mac fan boy”. A... Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:49:51 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/stop_press_mac_fan_boy 2013-10-31T08:49:51Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/setting_up_a_degree_the You would think that setting up a degree course, particularly when you already h... Wed, 09 Oct 2013 07:28:21 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/setting_up_a_degree_the 2013-10-09T07:28:21Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/setting_up_a_new_degree For the last few months (9 to be exact) I have not been teaching but instead I h... Wed, 11 Sep 2013 10:28:57 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/setting_up_a_new_degree 2013-09-11T10:28:57Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/what_is_your_elearningtools_exit Recently I read over at TidBits* (see FileMaker Closes the Lid on Bento ) that ... Tue, 06 Aug 2013 04:31:13 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/what_is_your_elearningtools_exit 2013-08-06T04:31:13Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/what_is_wrong_with_email_208549 This is one in a series of blog posts about email (The other posts can be found ... Mon, 05 Aug 2013 09:36:14 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/what_is_wrong_with_email_208549 2013-08-05T09:36:14Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/what_is_wrong_with_email_207498 This is one in a series of blog posts about email. The other posts can be found... Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:37:52 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/what_is_wrong_with_email_207498 2013-06-25T12:37:52Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/what_is_wrong_with_email_206674 This is one in a series of blog posts about email. The other posts can be found... Wed, 29 May 2013 03:00:53 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/what_is_wrong_with_email_206674 2013-05-29T03:00:53Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/what_is_wrong_with_email_205475 This is one in a series of blog posts about email. The other posts can be found... Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:19:27 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/what_is_wrong_with_email_205475 2013-04-22T07:19:27Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/what_is_wrong_with_email_204683 This is one in a series of blog posts about email. The other posts can be found... Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:26:04 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/what_is_wrong_with_email_204683 2013-03-21T03:26:04Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/what_is_wrong_with_email Actually I think this is an unfair question. The thing is, there is nothing wron... Tue, 12 Mar 2013 04:30:50 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/what_is_wrong_with_email 2013-03-12T04:30:50Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/problems_with_email8230_i_appear It appears I am not alone... Other people think there is a problem with e-mail!... Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:25:52 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/problems_with_email8230_i_appear 2013-02-26T05:25:52Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/my_hypothesis_email_is_evil Over the last few years I have come to the conclusion that e-mail is evil and th... Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:38:14 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/my_hypothesis_email_is_evil 2013-02-18T12:38:14Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/all_change_ive_moved_to All change! (And the people who run this site are not going to like this as they... Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:54:08 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/all_change_ive_moved_to 2013-02-11T08:54:08Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/2013_new_year_tech_resolutions Right, my new year tech resolutions for 2013. 1. Get a grip on my email ... Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:04:00 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/2013_new_year_tech_resolutions 2013-01-10T11:04:00Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/did_i_keep_my_2012 Just realised I haven't dealt with last year (2012) New Year's Resolutions, and ... Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:24:02 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/did_i_keep_my_2012 2013-01-09T21:24:02Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/10_elearning_predictions_for_2013 So, here are my prediction for 2013.... 1. Death of email OK, I have t... Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:26:19 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/10_elearning_predictions_for_2013 2013-01-03T14:26:19Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/how_did_i_do_with_202029 How did I do with my 10 eLearning predictions for 2012 - see [ 10 eLearning Pred... Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:53:22 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/how_did_i_do_with_202029 2012-12-31T10:53:22Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/sshhhhhhhh8230_dont_wake_the_blogger Well, this is a disgracefully long period between blog posts… The reason? The sa... Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:29:57 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/sshhhhhhhh8230_dont_wake_the_blogger 2012-12-06T20:29:57Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/spring_cleaning_more_fun_with The last 2 weeks I've been battling with Blackboard - it really shouldn't tak... Mon, 03 Sep 2012 14:09:06 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/spring_cleaning_more_fun_with 2012-09-03T14:09:06Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/handy_hint_spring_cleaning_your A very short, quick, and handy hint for something you might like to consider doi... Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:31:48 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/handy_hint_spring_cleaning_your 2012-08-21T16:31:48Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/elearning_the_annual_spring_clean Well I know it's not spring, well at least not in the northern hemisphere, but i... Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:29:31 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/elearning_the_annual_spring_clean 2012-08-14T19:29:31Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/4_elearning_paperless_courses_exams This post form part of a current series of posts on paperless courses - see 1. ... Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:09:08 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/4_elearning_paperless_courses_exams 2012-08-07T13:09:08Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/rss_is_finally_dead_well RSS (Really Simple Syndication - see Do you speak my language: R is for RSS, Ro... Thu, 02 Aug 2012 16:04:52 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/rss_is_finally_dead_well 2012-08-02T16:04:52Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/following_the_5th_international_plagiarism Last week I followed the 5th International Plagiarism Conference using Twitte... Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:12:29 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/following_the_5th_international_plagiarism 2012-07-24T09:12:29Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/following_the_blackboard_conference_on Last week I blogged about how I was following two teaching conferences in the UK... Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:17:53 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/following_the_blackboard_conference_on 2012-07-12T14:17:53Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/lessons_in_learning_dont_do Oh, the irony (well, I think it is irony)…. For the last few days I have been a... Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:41:22 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/lessons_in_learning_dont_do 2012-07-06T09:41:22Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/is_email_and_mobile_learning Here is an interesting question: Is access to the Internet, mLearning, and email... Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:08:56 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/is_email_and_mobile_learning 2012-07-03T14:08:56Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/digital_campus_a_workshop I have just spent the morning at a two-hour Digital Campus Workshop, which was a... Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:55:46 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/digital_campus_a_workshop 2012-06-20T13:55:46Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/3_elearning_paperless_courses_getting I have already touched upon this in a number of earlier posts - see " 2. eLearni... Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:40:47 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/3_elearning_paperless_courses_getting 2012-06-19T12:40:47Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/blogging_when_blogging_can_get As I have said in some previous posts (see "[ The Nature of Blogging (pun intend... Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:25:58 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/blogging_when_blogging_can_get 2012-06-15T12:25:58Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/writing_an_etext_book_progress_196714 Well, it has been awhile since I last put out an eText Book update (13 March 201... Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:10:59 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/writing_an_etext_book_progress_196714 2012-06-12T15:10:59Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/when_is_an_etextbook_not The answer to the question "When is an eTextbook not an eTextbook?" most probabl... Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:50:31 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/when_is_an_etextbook_not 2012-06-08T14:50:31Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/2_elearning_paperless_courses_the In " 1. eLearning - paperless courses: Going to the cloud" I wrote about how I ... Tue, 05 Jun 2012 11:52:42 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/2_elearning_paperless_courses_the 2012-06-05T11:52:42Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/skiing_beaver_creek_colorado_and The other month (March actually) I had the good fortune to be skiing at Beaver ... Thu, 31 May 2012 09:56:03 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/skiing_beaver_creek_colorado_and 2012-05-31T09:56:03Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/what_do_students_want_in Recently the Students' Union at Newcastle University ran a competition (an Ap... Tue, 29 May 2012 16:29:18 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/what_do_students_want_in 2012-05-29T16:29:18Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/software_i_use_bento_versus In a number of previous blog posts (see Handy hint: Dictation and feedback ; an... Thu, 24 May 2012 09:57:54 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/software_i_use_bento_versus 2012-05-24T09:57:54Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/science_communication_the_use_of This morning I had an interesting meeting with a colleague to discuss a new modu... Tue, 22 May 2012 13:53:16 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/science_communication_the_use_of 2012-05-22T13:53:16Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/handy_hint_dictation_and_feedback Feedback, feedback, feedback... Students want feedback on work. Quite rightl... Mon, 21 May 2012 15:37:23 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/handy_hint_dictation_and_feedback 2012-05-21T15:37:23Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/handy_hint_lights_camera_action Recently I listened to, and marked, 26 presentations given by second year studen... Thu, 17 May 2012 17:11:20 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/handy_hint_lights_camera_action 2012-05-17T17:11:20Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/elearning_a_thing_that_is Last week I was looking around a number of universities and colleges in Malaysia... Tue, 15 May 2012 17:03:42 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/elearning_a_thing_that_is 2012-05-15T17:03:42Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/1_elearning_paperless_courses_going One personal New Year's resolution that I didn't publish in my Tech Resolutions... Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:32:19 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/1_elearning_paperless_courses_going 2012-04-26T11:32:19Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/handy_hint_qr_codes_and The thing on the left, is a QR code. Also known in some circles as 'Robot Barf'.... Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:25:08 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/handy_hint_qr_codes_and 2012-04-23T21:25:08Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/long_time_no_post8230_ii It has been a long time since I last put up a post on this blog. I don't really ... Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:29:07 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/long_time_no_post8230_ii 2012-04-19T17:29:07Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/writing_an_etext_book_progress_194424 Well, I guess it is time for another update on the eText Book. Things are sti... Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:29:58 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/writing_an_etext_book_progress_194424 2012-03-13T19:29:58Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/am_i_the_biggest_obstacle This is an interesting question and one I hadn't considered.... Am I in fact th... Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:12:56 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/am_i_the_biggest_obstacle 2012-03-06T16:12:56Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/surviving_the_semester_summary Well, over the past few months I have written 10 posts on Surviving the Semester... Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:21:55 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/surviving_the_semester_summary 2012-02-28T08:21:55Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/surviving_the_semester_designing_a One final twist to the semester was we needed to design and implement a new onli... Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:58:23 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/surviving_the_semester_designing_a 2012-02-23T07:58:23Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/writing_an_etext_book_progress_193488 In an earlier blog post on iBook Author (see eText Books: iBook Author - Apple ... Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:47:56 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/writing_an_etext_book_progress_193488 2012-02-16T17:47:56Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/plagiarism_turnitin_user_group_meeting Yesterday I went up to Edinburgh for a TurnItIn User Group Meeting. If you ... Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:37:57 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/plagiarism_turnitin_user_group_meeting 2012-02-09T21:37:57Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/surviving_the_semester_tracking_students One major problem I had during the semester was tracking students in terms of th... Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:21:11 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/surviving_the_semester_tracking_students 2012-02-07T12:21:11Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/writing_an_etext_book_progress In an earlier blog post on iBook Author (see eText Books: iBook Author - Apple ... Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:26:22 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/writing_an_etext_book_progress 2012-02-02T14:26:22Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/surviving_the_semester_virtual_learning Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs - see Do you speak my language: V is for Vo... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:28:27 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/surviving_the_semester_virtual_learning 2012-01-31T13:28:27Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/surviving_the_semester_assessments_returning In a previous posts (see Surviving the semester: Assessments - Writing the Ques... Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:24:19 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/surviving_the_semester_assessments_returning 2012-01-27T14:24:19Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/etext_books_ibook_author_apple No blog post last week as I was busy playjng with a new program from Apple calle... Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:23:14 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/etext_books_ibook_author_apple 2012-01-24T15:23:14Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/surviving_the_semester_assessments_marking OK, so after the diversions of the festive period, back to Surviving the semeste... Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:28:11 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/surviving_the_semester_assessments_marking 2012-01-10T09:28:11Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/new_year8217s_resolution_learn_how Picked this up from a Tweet from a fellow Scitable Blogger Khalil A. Cassimally ... Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:37:49 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/new_year8217s_resolution_learn_how 2012-01-06T09:37:49Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/happy_new_year_my_2012 Happy New Year! I guess its time for me to come up with a few new year tech reso... Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:04:26 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/happy_new_year_my_2012 2012-01-03T12:04:26Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/10_elearning_predictions_for_2012 OK, happy 2012…. and here are my 10 eLearning predictions for 2012 1. T... Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:43:56 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/10_elearning_predictions_for_2012 2012-01-03T11:43:56Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/did_i_keep_my_2011 Back on 1st January 2011 I wrote a blog post - Happy New Year: My 2011 Tech Res... Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:28:12 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/did_i_keep_my_2011 2011-12-29T10:28:12Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/how_did_i_do_with Way way back at the start of 2011 I made 10 eLearning Predictions (actually it... Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:42:41 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/how_did_i_do_with 2011-12-27T16:42:41Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/surviving_the_semester_assessments_writing_191938 In a previous post - Surviving the semester: Assessments - Writing the Question... Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:35:14 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/surviving_the_semester_assessments_writing_191938 2011-12-22T09:35:14Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/surviving_the_semester_assessments_writing First problem with producing online assessment is, well, getting it online! ... Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:15:45 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/surviving_the_semester_assessments_writing 2011-12-19T08:15:45Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/surviving_the_semester_designing_online Designing online assessments can be tricky, and the first questions that should ... Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:06:08 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/surviving_the_semester_designing_online 2011-12-15T18:06:08Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/surviving_the_semester_assessments This semester I am handling around 3260 pieces of assessment, and in each case I... Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:00:00 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/surviving_the_semester_assessments 2011-12-12T19:00:00Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/surviving_the_semester8230 As I said a couple of weeks ago, this blog has been too quiet…. Well, there ... Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:42:05 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/surviving_the_semester8230 2011-12-08T13:42:05Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/long_time_no_post_again Well, it has been a long time since my last post. The reason? Teaching! And lo... Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:24:55 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/long_time_no_post_again 2011-11-23T22:24:55Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/slaves_to_the_machine8230_the Where did it all go wrong? When did we become 'slaves to the machine'? Way ... Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:14:47 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/slaves_to_the_machine8230_the 2011-10-11T09:14:47Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/an_open_letter_to_nature I have been blogging on Nature Scitable for around 10 months, and I must say I h... Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:29:22 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/an_open_letter_to_nature 2011-10-09T16:29:22Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/solo11_science_online_london_2011_189975 Well, I must admit I enjoyed SOLO10: Science online London 2010 (#solo10) - see ... Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:04:50 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/solo11_science_online_london_2011_189975 2011-10-09T16:04:50Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/solo11_science_online_london_2011_189972 Day 2 of SOLO11 had a slightly different approach for the sessions after the dat... Sun, 09 Oct 2011 15:56:08 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/solo11_science_online_london_2011_189972 2011-10-09T15:56:08Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/solo11_science_online_london_2011_188794 The second and final day of Science online London 2011 kicked off with a panel... Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:30:11 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/solo11_science_online_london_2011_188794 2011-09-07T13:30:11Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/solo11_day_1_workshops_at On day 1 of Science Online London (solo11) there were a number of workshops avai... Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:34:32 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/solo11_day_1_workshops_at 2011-09-06T16:34:32Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/solo11_science_online_london_2011_188651 Panel #2: Incentives - "What's in it for us?" After the morning session (se... Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:47:10 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/solo11_science_online_london_2011_188651 2011-09-05T13:47:10Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/solo11_science_online_london_2011_188645 Panel #1 : Linking with the Literature – the Arsenic Story This was a sessi... Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:59:58 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/solo11_science_online_london_2011_188645 2011-09-05T11:59:58Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/solo11_science_online_london_2011_188530 The conference feels different this year, much busier than last year. Keynote ... Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:26:39 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/solo11_science_online_london_2011_188530 2011-09-02T21:26:39Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/solo11_science_online_london_2011 I am currently attending Science online London 2011 ( #solo11 ), which is a tw... Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:38:23 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/solo11_science_online_london_2011 2011-09-02T12:38:23Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/blogging_blogging_is_not_real A couple of weeks ago I was in a PedR (Pedagogical Research) meeting in which we... Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:34:00 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/blogging_blogging_is_not_real 2011-08-01T13:34:00Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/blogging_write_once_publish_many A little while ago I wrote a blog post about how information should be pushed to... Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:50:37 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/blogging_write_once_publish_many 2011-07-29T13:50:37Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/blogging_rss_is_dead_long Way back in January I predicted the end of RSS (see 10 eLearning Predictions fo... Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:36:00 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/blogging_rss_is_dead_long 2011-07-28T14:36:00Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/blogging_the_joy_of_markdown And the series of blogging and eLearning continues….. I really like Markdow... Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:20:36 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/blogging_the_joy_of_markdown 2011-07-27T21:20:36Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/software_i_use_textmate Continuing with my theme of using bloggs in eLearning, it is time to write about... Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:24:23 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/software_i_use_textmate 2011-07-27T19:24:23Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/software_i_use_wordpress In the last post I talked about the use of blogging in eLearning. The question... Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:09:17 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/software_i_use_wordpress 2011-07-26T08:09:17Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/blogging_using_a_blog_in One thing I have been doing for a few years is using a blog in my teaching (see ... Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:46:56 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/blogging_using_a_blog_in 2011-07-25T16:46:56Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/long_time_no_post Subject line says it all... Well, my only excuses are exam marking, sorting out... Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:04:12 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/long_time_no_post 2011-07-16T21:04:12Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/push_dont_pull_your_elearners In the context of eLearning, to me, this is a 'no-brainer' and I find it alarmin... Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:19:31 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/push_dont_pull_your_elearners 2011-06-22T16:19:31Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/why_isnt_my_course_on OK, I know, you think I am jumping on the 'cloud media bandwagon' after Apple an... Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:33:27 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/why_isnt_my_course_on 2011-06-07T21:33:27Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/death_by_powerpoint_is_powerpoint Earlier today I spotted a piece in the Guardian - PowerPoint: the kudzu of mode... Mon, 30 May 2011 20:08:11 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/death_by_powerpoint_is_powerpoint 2011-05-30T20:08:11Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/why_dont_people_get_computers Most people think that all you can be do with a computer is: surf the web, write... Mon, 30 May 2011 18:19:49 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/why_dont_people_get_computers 2011-05-30T18:19:49Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_students_need_to_know Do students need to know facts, or do they just need to know how to find the fac... Thu, 19 May 2011 10:50:35 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_students_need_to_know 2011-05-19T10:50:35Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/the_perfect_storm_tertiary_education Recently I had the opportunity to sit down and think a bit about what is happeni... Mon, 09 May 2011 19:19:45 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/the_perfect_storm_tertiary_education 2011-05-09T19:19:45Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/software_i_use_dashcode_writing Way back in 2010 I predicted that 2011 would see "The rise of mobile learning" (... Wed, 04 May 2011 17:29:49 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/software_i_use_dashcode_writing 2011-05-04T17:29:49Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/to_lab_book_or_not OK, this is not really an eLearning post, but it is an interesting question (and... Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:34:15 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/to_lab_book_or_not 2011-04-28T15:34:15Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/why_academics_should_blog_a Interesting post over at The Neuro Times on " Why Academics Should Blog: A Col... Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:20:34 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/why_academics_should_blog_a 2011-04-27T18:20:34Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/teaching_in_a_connected_world Just came across a really interesting blog post - 7 Solutions for Educators Who... Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:34:31 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/teaching_in_a_connected_world 2011-04-26T19:34:31Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/the_rise_of_the_smart A recent article published on Tuesday 19 April 2011 in the Guardian (a UK newspa... Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:16:40 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/the_rise_of_the_smart 2011-04-20T09:16:40Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/software_i_use_more_on About a month ago I wrote a post about Evernote - see Software I use: Evernot... Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:17:01 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/software_i_use_more_on 2011-04-11T09:17:01Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/exam_question_spreadsheets_are_evil Wouldn't that make a great exam question? "Spreadsheets are evil. Discuss." Wha... Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:23:56 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/exam_question_spreadsheets_are_evil 2011-04-04T08:23:56Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/using_and_ipad_or_equivalent Just saw this tweet go by from @AJCann ... "RT @mjmobbs : Does anyone kno... Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:45:58 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/using_and_ipad_or_equivalent 2011-03-29T12:45:58Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_educators_need_to_master Just came across this great tweet: " @ron_wright : Attention teachers: Mast... Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:32:15 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_educators_need_to_master 2011-03-22T19:32:15Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/software_i_use_evernote I like Evernote ! In fact, I cannot believe I only started using Evernote a ... Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:00:41 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/software_i_use_evernote 2011-03-15T21:00:41Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_students_need_a_certificate Do students really need a piece of paper that says they can use a computer? ... Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:32:24 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_students_need_a_certificate 2011-03-15T07:32:24Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/the_nature_of_blogging_pun I have been writing blogs for around 8 years. The blogs I normally produce are ... Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:48:16 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/the_nature_of_blogging_pun 2011-03-14T18:48:16Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/write_once_publish_many_connecting Here is the scenario.... You teach a course to 200+ students and you need to pu... Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:24:26 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/write_once_publish_many_connecting 2011-03-10T21:24:26Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/demystifying_elearning_are_you_a One course I teach at Newcastle is Informatics (the use of computers to find and... Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:03:21 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/demystifying_elearning_are_you_a 2011-03-02T09:03:21Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_182643 Over the last few weeks I have written an A-Z of computing terms that I think ha... Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:48:39 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_182643 2011-02-28T16:48:39Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/elearning_problems_the_vanishing_weekend Just read an interesting piece - " Saturday, bloody Saturday: now it's all right... Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:04:46 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/elearning_problems_the_vanishing_weekend 2011-02-27T14:04:46Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_182590 Z is for Zero Day Exploit, zip, zombie There really is a lack of choice at t... Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:16:13 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_182590 2011-02-27T12:16:13Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_182559 Y is for Y2K, YML, YAML Not a lot of choice here as I can only think of thre... Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:08:33 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_182559 2011-02-26T11:08:33Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_182522 X is for XML, XHTML Surprisingly (?) there is not a lot of choice for X, and... Sat, 26 Feb 2011 10:01:05 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_182522 2011-02-26T10:01:05Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_182470 W is for Web services, Wiki, W3C, Webserver, WWW, Wordpress The choice here ... Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:55:46 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_182470 2011-02-25T08:55:46Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_182367 V is for Volume, Vapourware, Virus, VoIP, VNC, VPN, Virtual campus, VLE Toug... Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:21:55 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_182367 2011-02-22T21:21:55Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_182361 U is for UML, Unix, URL, Unicode Not much choice for U, so I am not going to... Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:36:16 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_182361 2011-02-22T20:36:16Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_182336 T is for TCP/IP, Trojan Horse, Tunnel, Twitter, Troll Now, there c... Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:07:27 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_182336 2011-02-22T09:07:27Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_182026 S is for Server, SEO, SMTP, Script, SFTP, SSH, Shell, Site Map, Source Code, Sof... Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:06:46 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_182026 2011-02-16T21:06:46Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_181432 R is for RSS, Router, Root, Ruby Quite a good selection for R, and I think I... Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:38:21 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_181432 2011-02-05T16:38:21Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_181287 Q is for Queue. This is a very short post! Q..... what can be said? I r... Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:46:32 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_181287 2011-02-02T20:46:32Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_181282 P is for PHP, POP, Program, Perl, Phishing, Python, Proxy Spoilt for choice... Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:08:38 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_181282 2011-02-02T19:08:38Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_181255 O is for Object, Open Source, Operating System My choice here is Open Source... Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:07:19 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_181255 2011-02-02T10:07:19Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_181223 N is for Name Server, Netiquette N is another letter for which I can't think... Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:40:21 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_181223 2011-02-01T21:40:21Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_181221 M is for MySQL, MAC address, Malware, MashUp, Metadata, Middleware This is a... Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:18:17 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_181221 2011-02-01T21:18:17Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_181217 L is for Language, Linux, Log File, Load Balance The choice here has to be L... Tue, 01 Feb 2011 20:35:35 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_181217 2011-02-01T20:35:35Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_180691 p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px ... Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:27:40 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_180691 2011-01-26T05:27:40Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_180689 J is for Javascript, Java I only came up with one for J.... Ah, just though... Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:02:02 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_180689 2011-01-26T05:02:02Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_180631 p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px ... Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:40:12 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_180631 2011-01-25T09:40:12Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_180594 H is for htaccess file, hacker, host, http, https, html, hardware This is a ... Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:46:02 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_180594 2011-01-24T17:46:02Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_180421 G is for GUI, Gopher, GUID, GPU. Not much to pick from here (so I guess I am mi... Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:49:18 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_180421 2011-01-19T22:49:18Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_180416 F is for Frontend, FORTRAN, Facebook, FAQ, Firewall, Flame, Flame Bait, FTP, FTP... Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:57:36 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_180416 2011-01-19T20:57:36Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_180400 Do you speak my language: E is for eLearning, Email, Encryption, eLifelong, ePed... Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:04:41 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_180400 2011-01-19T10:04:41Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_180354 D is for Database, debug, DNS... In fact, I am a bit short of Ds. Anyway, my c... Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:56:42 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_180354 2011-01-18T08:56:42Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_180311 C is for Cloud Computing, Computer, C, client, cron job, compile, compress, cook... Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:25:46 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_180311 2011-01-17T09:25:46Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_180236 B is for Blog, Backend, Basic, Backbone, Backup, beta software, bash, bug! S... Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:39:10 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_180236 2011-01-14T09:39:10Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_180218 A is for AJAX, Apache, API, Array, and alpha software! So, my top pick here ... Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:27:16 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language_180218 2011-01-13T22:27:16Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language This may seem like a daft question, but it is actually my way of introducing a s... Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:22:33 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/do_you_speak_my_language 2011-01-12T15:22:33Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/the_virtual_classroom I have just been cced on Twitter by Kha Mer ( @khakhov ) who kindly pointed me... Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:10:42 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/the_virtual_classroom 2011-01-07T15:10:42Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/facebook_and_teaching_is_facebook Last night I was watching Newsnight (a late night news programme on the BBC in t... Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:07:33 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/facebook_and_teaching_is_facebook 2011-01-05T14:07:33Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/tips_for_exemplary_course_design Over on the Blackboard Blog I have just tripped over a post on " 6 Tips for Ex... Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:35:58 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/tips_for_exemplary_course_design 2011-01-04T19:35:58Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/happy_new_year_my_2011 Happy New Year! Besides the usual new years resolutions of eat less, drink l... Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:32:07 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/happy_new_year_my_2011 2011-01-01T14:32:07Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/10_elearning_predictions_for_2011 Well, if Nature can get in to the prediction game ( New year, new science ), the... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 16:44:59 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/10_elearning_predictions_for_2011 2010-12-31T16:44:59Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/potential_wifi_problem_on_campus Just came across this article in the New York Times - Wi-Fi Overload at High-Te... Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:13:35 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/potential_wifi_problem_on_campus 2010-12-29T17:13:35Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/the_end_of_internet_growth Interesting piece in the NewScientist ( 2011 preview: The internet peak comes in... Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:18:49 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/the_end_of_internet_growth 2010-12-29T10:18:49Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/technologically_enhanced_learning_environments A couple of years ago I was reading a report produced by a colleague in which th... Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:09:40 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/technologically_enhanced_learning_environments 2010-12-24T12:09:40Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/hello_world Well, all good computer programming books start with a "Hello World!" exercise (... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:47:21 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bioscience-elearning/hello_world 2010-12-22T15:47:21Z