Bowdoin College is a small liberal arts college that offers a comprehensive Neuroscience major. The laboratory experience is an integral part of the major, and many students progress through three stages. A core course offers a survey of concepts and techniques. Four upper-level courses function to give students more intensive laboratory research experience in neurophysiology, molecular neurobi...

This article describes a case study of how a simulation used in an Audiology course changed the way the instructor taught and how students learned. We combined the perspectives of West & Graham[1] and Roschelle, et al[2] as a framework to analyze the data. We found that in at least some ways use of the simulation improved: the students’ ability to visualize procedures and concepts, the quality ...

Providing an effective mechanism for an instructor to interact with one or more remote classrooms is a complex problem in synchronous distance learning. Although a human operator at the remote classroom could be used to direct a video camera and hence provide feedback to the instructor as to the state of the class and to coordinate the instructor’s attention to the class as questions are raised...

In this paper we describe how to couple reputation systems with distributed consensus protocols to provide high-throughput highly-scalable consensus for large peer-to-peer networks of untrusted validators. We introduce reputation module Guru, which can be laid on top of various consensus protocols such as PBFT or HoneyBadger. It ranks nodes based on the outcomes of consensus rounds run by a sma...