Four courses incorporate stinging nettles, cedar vapor, pickled wild vegetables, ash pasta, wild mushrooms and wild mint to garnish Alaskan king crab, Vancouver Island salmon and elk.
High-quality, next-generation online courses incorporate personalized adaptive learning, problem-solving activities, interactive laboratories, animations, simulations, educational gaming, virtual reality environments, social networking and data analytics.
Globally, very few college or university chemistry courses incorporate toxicology although public perception of chemicals and the chemical industry as threats to health and the environment has had an adverse effect on chemistry and on the use of its products.
These courses incorporate innovative pedagogical methods, case studies, and class discussions to stimulate the students to think creatively about bioethical issues emerging from new biotechnologies.
As introductory biology courses incorporate more physics and quantitative reasoning, student attitudes about the role of equations in biology become especially relevant.
Course average normalized gains and average posttest scores, representing the final reasoning levels attained by the students, were both significantly higher in courses incorporating active-learning strategies than in the class in which lecture was the dominant mode of instruction.
Previous surveys of inquiry-based learning in biology laboratory courses showed high percentages of courses incorporating inquiry but that open-ended experiments in which students are defining the research question and the research methods were rare (Brewer, 1998; Sundberg et al., 2005).
Although support for evidence-based medicine (EBM) has grown in recent years, as means of improving patient outcomes as well as improving the overall quality and effectiveness of healthcare delivery, case studies assessing clinically integrated EBM courses incorporating ICT in the form of digital technologies and online web searches are less abundant [ 10, 11].
