After the comprehension multiple-choice test (10 questions about the current content) in every class, the students took the lecture and worked on basic computer science contents, such as encryption technology, image processing, ontology, and programming.
Many of the 20 25 students per year who take the lecture course are pre-medical, but there is a substantial minority of other students coming from diverse majors that include economics, history of science and medicine, anthropology, and psychology as well as the various biology majors.
Students usually take the lab the semester after they take the lecture course.
There are deadlines and coursework and conference calls, but the students, who are spread out all over the country, take the lectures whenever they want.
All students had previously or were concurrently taking the companion lecture course (Ecology, Genetics, and Evolution) in which the genetics unit was taught using a combination of lecture and in-class problem-solving activities that emphasized meiosis, inheritance of Mendelian traits, and genetic analysis (e.g., monohybrid, dihybrid, linkage, three-point cross).
The course is intended for sophomore biology majors who are concurrently taking the introductory biology lecture series.
Sal Khan is taking the Internet and making lectures as scalable as textbooks, freeing up time in the classroom for hands on, interactive learning.
Later an enlightened Max lectures about taking the high road.
Wright helped edit Owen's New Harmony Gazette and, defying convention, took to the lecture platform.
