Editorial: Disciplinary and interdisciplinary science education research (DISER)

Research at the Interface of Cognition, Education, and Disciplinary Science

Overview Meeting the challenges of the 21 century will require both workers who are highly competent in fields of science and engineering and citizens who have a high degree of science literacy. Accomplishing these goals will, in turn, require changes to undergraduate science and engineering education (National Research Council, 2012). With their expertise in learning, memory, problem solving, ...

Closing the gap between interdisciplinary research and disciplinary teaching.

A s Ph.D. students, and then as postdoctoral associates, future academicians spend 6–8 years getting ready to push hard on the boundaries and interfaces where traditional areas of science overlap. More than ever, however, this broadens the separation between what that faculty member is prepared to carry out in the laboratory and what is expected from a professor in the undergraduate teaching pr...

Editorial: International, interdisciplinary, multi-level bioinformatics training and education

Papers Best practices in bioinformatics training for life scientists 528 Allegra Via,Thomas Blicher, Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Michelle D. Brazas, Cath Brooksbank, Aidan Budd, Javier De Las Rivas, Jacqueline Dreyer, Pedro L. Fernandes, Celia van Gelder, Joachim Jacob, Rafael C. Jimenez, Jane Loveland, Federico Moran, Nicola Mulder,Tommi Nyro« nen, Kristian Rother, MariaVictoria Schneider andTeresa ...

Biophysics software for interdisciplinary education and research

PRIDE: Photonics Research in Interdisciplinary Education

A new combined research-curriculum development (CRCD) program at Boston University titled Photonics Research in Interdisciplinary Education (PRIDE) is described. The PRIDE program is designed to demonstrate vertically integrated curriculum development by incorporating three levels of modules into a wide range of existing courses. Examples of photonics research and knowledge are molded into modu...