Discovery-based learning in the life sciences /
For nearly a decade, scientists, educators and policy makers have issued a call to college biology professors to transform undergraduate life sciences education. As a gateway science for many undergraduate students, biology courses are crucial to addressing many of the challenges we face, such as cl...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
John Wiley & Sons Inc.,
©2015.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | For nearly a decade, scientists, educators and policy makers have issued a call to college biology professors to transform undergraduate life sciences education. As a gateway science for many undergraduate students, biology courses are crucial to addressing many of the challenges we face, such as climate change, sustainable food supply and fresh water and emerging public health issues. While canned laboratories and cook-book approaches to college science education do teach students to operate equipment, make accurate measurements and work well with numbers, they do not teach students how to. |
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Notas: | Includes index. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
ISBN: | 9781118907245 1118907248 9781118907573 1118907574 9781118907399 1118907396 1118907566 9781118907566 |