This is a limited study of the effectiveness of 3 approaches to teaching one unit of an information technology course. The emphasis is on comparing distance learning with live lecture approaches. In their comparisons, the authors did consider a complete digital video course vs. a complete lecture course vs. a lecture course which included these video interviews. The main result of the paper is ...

Craig Bohren has enhanced science education in many ways, including email mentoring of non-scientists and scientists, informal science books, and science textbooks. I had numerous interactions with Bohren over a ten year period, and he influenced my own informal-science-education efforts, which include educational modules, science education posters, and curriculum reviews.

Singapore students boast stellar performance at international benchmarking studies such as PISA and TIMSS. One of the major contributors to the consistently good performance in mathematics and science is the quality of our science teacher education in Singapore. Through a consistent, systematic and continuous system, there is a seamless transition of pre-service teacher education to continuing ...

dr. bruce alberts, editor-in-chief of science magazine, and professor emeritus at the university of california, san francisco (ucsf), presented a popular and thought-provoking talk to the participants of the global young academy general assembly in pretoria, south africa, on may 21 2012. professor alberts has kindly agreed to the publication of some of the ideas he addressed in the future of me...

Scientists can help by partnering with museums, out-of-school programs, schools, organizations that develop instructional materials, or other educational projects.

Many science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduate students travel through the academic career pipeline without ever learning how to teach effectively, an oversight that negatively affects the quality of undergraduate science education and cheats trainees of valuable professional development. This article argues that all STEM graduate students and postdoctoral fellows should...

Despite the many assumptions that usually surround the historical role of science education in scientific practice, scholarship on the subject has been scattered, disjointed and usually undertaken en route to other pursuits. It is the purpose of this paper to show that science education is very often implied in much of the recent scholarship in the history of science and to bring to the fore sc...

This paper traces the development over several years of an initiative involving student journals that was introduced into a tertiary science education course for pre-service teachers to promote enhanced learning of how to teach science. Very soon after introducing the journals into course work the lecturer began engaging in ‘unplanned’ informal reflection (reflection-in-action and reflection-on...