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This can help anyone become more interested in science

Here's a great article about a student using Twitter as a primary source for political science research.

I have been looking for labs I could add to my online science classes. This article shares some interesting tools that could be used for this purpose. If anyone finds any specific to Anatomy and Physiology, I would love to see them!

Technology Students are emboldened, but they can also hijack discussions Maybe Sugato Chakravarty should wear a helmet to class. The professor of consumer sciences and retailing at Purdue University repeatedly attempts the instructional equivalent of jumping a motorcycle over a row of flaming barrels.

Technology Students are emboldened, but they can also hijack discussions Maybe Sugato Chakravarty should wear a helmet to class. The professor of consumer sciences and retailing at Purdue University repeatedly attempts the instructional equivalent of jumping a motorcycle over a row of flaming barrels.

Technology Students are emboldened, but they can also hijack discussions Maybe Sugato Chakravarty should wear a helmet to class. The professor of consumer sciences and retailing at Purdue University repeatedly attempts the instructional equivalent of jumping a motorcycle over a row of flaming barrels.

Useful for Virtual Labs

This is a fantastic set of digital learning objects for the sciences!

This is a great resource to find simulations in numerous areas of science.

With all the things we read that we are losing our grammar with what is happening through Instant Messaging, this comes asa breath of fresh air. Interesting article.

Free, high-quality videos for various medical, nursing, and biology courses.

I think these are helpful Video lectures in chemistry. #TT2041

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Special Reports Faculty members experiment with artificial intelligence in the classroom Premium content for subscribers. Subscribe Today Last spring, Ashok K. Goel pulled off one of the great pranks in the history of artificial intelligence. In an online course, Mr. Goel, a computer-science professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, relied on nine teaching assistants, including...

It wasn't so long ago that scientists had only a couple of ways to share their work with the world: publishing in a research journal or presenting at a scientific meeting. This often limited exposure to a relatively small sphere of scientists.

By Pamela Pollara in Educational Technology and E-learning. The acceptance of Facebook by school-aged users is evident, but the potential of using social networking sites for educational purposes is still being debated. This paper explores the use of Facebook within a high school science-mentoring program.

Will great free courses drive down applications to places like Stanford? That's doubtful. It's more likely that these offerings will help build a stronger university brand. Writing about the success of a Stanford online computer science course in the Wall Street Journal, Holly Finn implies that free Web-based education is about to or should replace elite universities: It's a thrilling collegiate coup.

This was really interesting...there are so many free online courses. The issue seems to be quality and accreditation.

Here is a well done interactive tutorial for the library sciences. RIOT = Research Information Online Tutorial.

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Free University Courses I recommend SIMS 141 - Search Engines - Fall 2005 to learn more about discovering quality open content in the deep web.

Free online courses from the world's top scholars. I recommend the movers and shakers panel of guest speakers in Media, Education and the Marketplace Course Course MIT / Media Studies Shigeru Miyagawa