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January 15, 2009

Nature Magzine sets up collaborative education space

Nature Magazine, which should be the stodgiest of the stodgiest, continues to show an admirable flexibility (stopping short of doing the full open access Monty). It’s now created Scitable, “a collaborative learning space for science undergraduates.” It’s got articles, online class tools, teacher collaborative tools, student collaborative tools, discussion areas, consultable experts… I haven’t yet gone through it all.

This initial implementation focuses on genetics. Nature is planning on expanding the topics.

On top of all that, it’s great to contemplate how blase we’ve become about the primordial value of collaborative tools. Collaboration is the new greed.

[Tags: nature_magazine education collaboration genetics teaching ]

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Categories: Uncategorized Tagged with: collaboration • digital culture • education • genetics • media • social networks • teaching Date: January 15th, 2009 dw

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August 20, 2008

Movement of humankind

Here’s an animated explanation of how humans spread across the planet. (Thanks for the link, Greg!)

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Categories: Uncategorized Tagged with: anthropology • genetics • science Date: August 20th, 2008 dw

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