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Beyond the Euphoria--Questioning the Web, the Computer and Everything. A Roundup of Printed Misgivings
Graham Parslow
Biochemical Education Vol. 25, No. 3 (1997) pp. 151–55
Summarizes points made by various commentators about the pitfalls of Web teaching. Critiques the integration of computer-assisted instruction into the larger curriculum, the quality of World Wide Web resources for teaching biochemistry, and the...
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Commentary: New Technologies on the Horizon for Teaching
Graham R. Parslow
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education Vol. 41, No. 1 (2013)
A well-researched report has listed the technologies that should increasingly feature in teaching. It is projected that in the coming year there will be increased use of cloud computing, mobile applications, social exchanges, and tablet computing....
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Websites of Note
Graham R. Parslow
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education Vol. 39, No. 6 (2011) pp. 465–467
This article features websites related to biochemistry and molecular biology education. They include: (1) Scitable (www.nature.com/scitable); (2) Educause (www.educause.edu); (3) The Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (onlinelibrary.wiley.com...
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Downloaded Lectures Have Been Shown to Produce Better Assessment Outcomes
Graham R. Parslow
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education Vol. 37, No. 6 (2009) pp. 375–376
With relevance to current students, the author has observed that when commuting by public transport, there is a near complete use of audio-visual devices by the "plugged-in" under 30 age group. New technology, new generation, and new allocations of...
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CAL and videodisc for lecturers and technophobes*
Graham Parslow; T Haynes
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 4, No. 2 (Jan 01, 1988)
Good computer software lets a novice produce results quickly. The "Q" Instruction package was conceived at Adelaide University as a means to allow teachers without programming experience to generate Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) materials, or...
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Commentary: Tablet PCs--Lightweights with a Teaching Punch
Graham R. Parslow
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education Vol. 38, No. 5 (2010) pp. 339–340
Tablet (or slate) computers are a group of small portable computers that have two features in common, a touch screen and wireless connectivity to the web. At the 2010 Consumer Electronics show held in January in Las Vegas, this category of product...
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Commentary: Crowdsourcing, Foldit, and Scientific Discovery Games
Graham R. Parslow
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education Vol. 41, No. 2 (2013) pp. 116–117
The web has created new possibilities for collaboration that fit under the terms crowdsourcing and human-based computation. Crowdsourcing applies when a task or problem is outsourced to an undefined public rather than a specific body. Human-based...
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Commentary: The Khan Academy and the Day-Night Flipped Classroom
Graham R. Parslow
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education Vol. 40, No. 5 (2012) pp. 337–338
Teaching by night and reflecting on a subject by day is the way that Salman Khan sees education evolving in the age of online lectures. Khan believes he is onto something in what he styles the "flipped classroom." In Khan's view, there is no need...
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Commentary: Massive Open Online Courses
Graham R. Parslow
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education Vol. 41, No. 4 (2013) pp. 278–279
The author of this commentary states that, except for the scale, there is little novel about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) because distance teaching courses have featured the same elements for many years. He notes the extreme view that MOOCs...
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Commentary: Allocating the Blend in Blended Learning
Graham R. Parslow
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education Vol. 40, No. 4 (2012)
The biochemistry course at Stanford Medical School has been redesigned to incorporate online lectures. The Stanford instructors provide short online presentations then use class time for interactive discussions of clinical vignettes to highlight the ...
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CAL and videodisc for lecturers and technophobes
Graham Parslow; Robert Haynes
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 4, No. 2 (Jan 01, 1988) pp. 118–122
Good computer software lets a novice produce results quickly. The "Q" Instruction package was conceived at Adelaide University as a means to allow teachers without programming experience to generate Computer Assisted Learning (CAL)...
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Use of Questions from the Medical Biochemistry Question Bank with the "Q" Instruction Package
Darryl W. Aesche; Graham R. Parslow
Biochemical Education Vol. 16, No. 1 (1988) pp. 24–28
Discusses the use of a bank of about 9,000 test items in a computer-assisted instructional program at Adelaide University (South Australia). Describes the program and outlines the steps in producing an instructional program. (TW)