Nature Publishing Group has just released a new genetics education website called Scitable. It represents a new generation of making science content and experts available to undergraduate students and the general public. My first impression of this is that it is pretty impressive. Community-based learning is widely recognized as an effective learning strategy, and it will be interesting to see how scientists, students, and the general public react to Scitable.For more on the potential uses of Scitable for developing a genetics community - see my column on ScientificBlogging.com. For now, check out the site and let me know what you think. Should this be the way that education is addressed in the future?
Links for Scitable were repaired on January 23rd
2 comments:
This looks pretty darned cool, Dr. Windelspecht. Do you think that maybe we could post the link on ASULearn, or even set up a class group on the website for Human Genetics? It might encourage a lot more students to go there, which would help the community and the students both...
I am working on it - hope to have something up and running this week!
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