The article deals with issues related to quality assessment of material educational tools for technical education.
As a first step to addressing the need for increased recruitment and training of plant scientists, the premier plant science journal, The Plant Cell (published by the American Society of Plant Biologists) in 2009 began publishing online educational tools for use in higher education.
"Elementary school has been historically the best place to introduce computers," said Barbara Kurshan, executive vice president and chief education officer at bigchalk.com, which provides educational tools for teachers, parents and students.
The Genome Consortium for Active Teaching using Next-Generation Sequencing and the DNA Learning Center offer workshops that aim at helping educators gain necessary experience in the RNA-seq analysis and develop educational tools for their students (Buonaccorsi et al., 2011, 2014).
Also, districts could effortlessly share student records with developers seeking to create educational tools for schools.
She is a director at Character Lab, a nonprofit organization in New York that is developing educational tools for teachers and parents that focus on how character, optimism and self-control can affect children's ability to learn.
