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Thanks for clicking on the link in the Genetics News email.  By visiting this page you've told the Useful Genetics staff that you read the July 9 (Part 2) edition. Feel free to leave a comme...

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Thanks for clicking on the link in the Genetics News email.  By visiting this page you've told the Useful Genetics staff that you read the July 8 (Part 1) edition. Feel free to leave a comment ...

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Nothing happening here folks.

http://rrteaching.blogspot.com/2016/07/control-post.html

I haven't posted anything here for ages.  But I teach about climate change now (see here ), so RRTeaching seemed a better place for this than PPResearch.   Last week Naomi Oreskes gave a ...

http://rrteaching.blogspot.com/2016/04/post-oreskes-thoughts.html

I just posted the following tweet, but realized that it needed a bit more elaboration. The meanings I want to capture are the following: 'GENOTYPE':  the genetic differences between diff...

http://rrteaching.blogspot.com/2015/04/alternatives-to-genotype-and-phenotype.html

Four days before our first lectures appear (Module 1: How different are we?), here are the latest stats: About 1000 students have done our two surveys and the Preparation self-test.  These nu...

http://rrteaching.blogspot.com/2013/04/useful-genetics-three-days-in.html

We went live yesterday, a week before our first lectures will be available.  Students are viewing the introductory videos, taking the surveys and self-test,a nd posting on the discussion forum. ...

http://rrteaching.blogspot.com/2013/04/useful-genetics-is-now-real-course.html

It's high time I got back into blogging (I don't know why I stopped). Our Coursera MOOC, Useful Genetics , goes live tomorrow!  The first set of lectures (Module 1: How different are we) ...

http://rrteaching.blogspot.com/2013/04/useful-genetics-is-about-to-go-live.html

(Apologies for the long interval of dead air...) I'm working on the video lectures for my upcoming MOOC Useful Genetics , and I'm stalled at Module 5, on personal genomics.  I know from our pr...

http://rrteaching.blogspot.com/2013/03/teaching-personal-genomics-commercial.html

Yikes!  I just recorded my first draft of a lecture video, and it's 25 minutes long!  This is twice as long as I want my videos to be. I don't feel that I covered a lot of material, but I'll ...

http://rrteaching.blogspot.com/2012/12/first-lecture-video.html

Yesterday most of the people involved with UBC's Coursera afforts met to discuss how things were going.  One result of this is that I've changed my plan for preparing the ~60 lecture videos.  ...

http://rrteaching.blogspot.com/2012/12/i-have-plan-for-developing-lecture.html

(This is an idealistic and probably not-very-well-thought-out post.  Comments and critiques are welcome.) Ecologists often refer to the 'tragedy of the commons ', the destruction of a shared ...

http://rrteaching.blogspot.com/2012/12/moocs-and-universities-tragedy-of.html

We (me and the guys of the Centre for Teaching and Learning Technology) have started working out the best conditions for recording all the lecture videos. We have a lot of factors to consider - f...

http://rrteaching.blogspot.com/2012/11/recording-videos-for-coursera-technology.html

PART 1.  GENOTYPE AND PHENOTYPE WE SHOULD HAVE ONE LEARNING OBJECTIVE FOR EACH VIDEO (ONE VIDEO FOR EACH LEARNING OBJECTIVE) 1.  How much humans are the same genetically, and how much we dif...

http://rrteaching.blogspot.com/2012/11/planning-useful-genetics-weekly-modules.html

My Useful Genetics MOOC now has more than 8000 students signed up.  It won't be offered until May (6 months form now), but there's so much preparation that I'm already in danger of panic unless ...

http://rrteaching.blogspot.com/2012/11/seriously-beginning-to-prepare-for.html

Over the past few days I've been reading what seems like hundreds of articles and blog posts about MOOCs.  This is mostly because I've discovered a number of sites that aggregate these articles ...

http://rrteaching.blogspot.com/2012/10/avoiding-exercise-bike-problem-with.html

Keith Devlin is teaching a Coursera course titled Introduction to Mathematical Thinking , and he's blogging about the experience here . In his latest post he discusses the relationship between...

http://rrteaching.blogspot.com/2012/10/doing-for-math-what-i-want-to-do-for.html

Peter Sloep has some thoughtful comments in his Networked Learning Scoop-it on my MOOC-opalypse post .  Here's his comments in purple, and my responses in black: The line of argument followed ...

http://rrteaching.blogspot.com/2012/10/thinking-about-peter-sloeps-comments.html

MO-OCalypse?  MOOC-apocalypse? (Oops, apocalypse is one of those words that, if you look too closely, always appears wrongly spelled.)   A UBC colleague who's also going to be producing a Cou...

http://rrteaching.blogspot.com/2012/10/preparing-for-mooc-ocalypse.html

  Well, my Useful Genetics course has been up on Coursera for a week, and 3500 people have signed up. Although that's not dazzling by Coursera standards, if signups continue at this rate th...

http://rrteaching.blogspot.com/2012/09/first-week.html

Next spring I'm going to be teaching a 'massively open online course' (a MOOC) titled Useful Genetics.  You can read all about it here: https://www.coursera.org/course/usefulgenetics . The mot...

http://rrteaching.blogspot.com/2012/09/useful-genetics.html

My Perspectives article about reforming genetics education is up at PLoS Biology (Why do we have to learn this stuff? A new genetics for 21st century students ).  There's lots of chatter on Twit...

http://rrteaching.blogspot.com/2012/07/should-we-really-give-mendel-boot.html

This is a teaser for my opinion piece on how the teaching of genetics should be changed, which has now been accepted by PLoS Biology.  It should be out soon, so below I'm just going to put the t...

http://rrteaching.blogspot.com/2012/05/giving-mendel-boot.html

This problem was on the final exam of our new Fundamentals of Genetics course.  It's an example of what I'd like our students to be able to do. (10 POINTS)  The ideogram above shows a nor...

http://rrteaching.blogspot.com/2011/12/modern-genetics-problem.html

Several years ago I was asked to take charge of developing a new second-year 'fundamentals of genetics' course, to replace our program's long-standing third-year course (a legacy from David Suzuk...

http://rrteaching.blogspot.com/2011/12/what-genetics-should-all-our-students.html