{"id":1747,"date":"2010-03-09T23:19:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T07:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/alan\/2010\/03\/award-winning-online-science-education.html"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:40","slug":"award-winning-online-science-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/2010\/03\/award-winning-online-science-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning online science education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t like modern textbook prices and they don&#8217;t like lugging textbooks around in their overflowing backpacks, but they seem to like online books even less. So traditional books persist.<\/p>\n<p>In to the fray comes the 2010 prize for &#8220;<b>Online Resources in Education<\/b>&#8221; offered by Science magazine. If you like, skip the two page description of the award winners (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/reprint\/327\/5965\/538.pdf\"><b>Science, 29 January 2010, <i>327<\/i>, 538<\/b><\/a>). Just go straight to the winning web site, <a href=\"http:\/\/learn.genetics.utah.edu\/\"><b>Learn.Genetics<\/b><\/a> (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.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know what you think. Have you tossed your genetics textbook in the paper recycling bin yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&apos;t like modern textbook prices and they don&apos;t&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/2010\/03\/award-winning-online-science-education\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2293,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/2293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}