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This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This month’s issue discusses ideas to get students interested starting on the very first day of class....
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Two-Year Community: Design and Components of a Two-Year College Interdisciplinary Field-Study Course
The authors present an 11-day interdisciplinary field-study course designed for nonscience majors at a two-year college. Using a theoretical learning framework that emphasizes cognitive and metacognitive gains, the field study curriculum is designed ...
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Case Study: The Hunger Pains: Ghrelin, Weight Loss, and Maintenance
This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. In this month’s issue the case study involves the topic of weight loss for an introductory-level ph...
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Research and Teaching: WikiED: Using Web 2.0 Tools to Teach Content and Critical Thinking
This article describes a course in which Web 2.0 tools were used to support the teaching-learning process, including the use of tagging and social bookmarking, academic resource management, and website collaboration and design....
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The authors designed and implemented a first-year seminar in science course at the University of British Columbia to allow students to develop and improve their scientific writing and argumentation skills. They found that the seminar format offers th...