The rapid shift to online teaching in spring 2020 meant most of us were teaching in panic
mode. As we move forward with course planning for fall and beyond, we can invest more …

One of the biggest hurdles of teaching data science and programming techniques to
beginners is simply getting started with the technology. With multiple versions of the same …

Learning goals and objectives are a key part of instruction, informing curricular design,
assessment, and learning. These goals and objectives are also applied at the programmatic …

There is a clear demand for quantitative literacy in the life sciences, necessitating competent
instructors in higher education. However, not all instructors are versed in data science skills …

Participatory live coding is a technique in which a teacher or instructor writes and narrates
code out loud as they teach and invites learners to join them by writing and executing the …

As genomics technologies advance, there is a growing demand for computational biologists
trained for genomics analysis but instructors face significant hurdles in providing formal …

Statistical and scientific programming has quickly become a necessary skill in the sciences,
often conducted in the programming language, R [1, 2]. However, formal education in …

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) provides a flexible framework for supporting a wide
variety of learners. We report here on a conference that presented the UDL framework as a …

Background Bioinformatics is fundamental to biomedical sciences, but its mastery presents a
steep learning curve for bench biologists and clinicians. Learning to code while analyzing …

Enzymes are nature's catalysts, mediating chemical processes in living systems. The study
of enzyme function and mechanism includes defining the maximum catalytic rate and affinity …