The pundits keep telling us that traditional textbooks will be replaced any day now by online resources, but science textbooks seem like a particularly tough nut for online authors to crack. Students don’t like modern textbook prices and they don’t like lugging textbooks around in their overflowing backpacks, but they seem to like online books even less. So traditional books persist.
In to the fray comes the 2010 prize for “Online Resources in Education” offered by Science magazine. If you like, skip the two page description of the award winners (Science, 29 January 2010, 327, 538). Just go straight to the winning web site, Learn.Genetics (http://learn.genetics.utah.edu) which is published by the Genetic Science Learning Center, U. Utah, and check out award-winning online science education for yourself.
Let me know what you think. Have you tossed your genetics textbook in the paper recycling bin yet?
