Using Technology To Leverage Your Lectures Stickiness

Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) to Education

In an effort to reduce costs and increase worker satisfaction, many businesses have implemented a concept known as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) or Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT). Similarly, many school districts are beginning to implement BYOT policies and programs to improve educational learning opportunities for students who have a wide variety of technology devices. BYOT allow districts wi...

Web stickiness optimised to humidity

Blundering into a sticky spider’s web is unpleasant enough, evenwhenyouare large and can tear free. But for smaller creatures, impacting a web is a death sentence. Brent Opell and colleagues from Virginia Tech, USA, explain that the stickiness of a web depends on the stretchiness of the adhesive globules that are dotted along the spiral thread. ‘When an insect flies into an orb web, its legs, w...

Lectures

Give It Your Best Shot: Favorite Lectures from Agile Teachers

College instructors are incorporating agile methods into their courses throughout the curriculum. Industrial trainers are focusing on effective ways of introducing agile techniques to their clients. We now have a significant amount of experience from which to draw upon for adding agile to our courses. This panel brings together four experienced teachers of agile methods to present their most ef...

Using Comparative Genomics to Leverage Animal Models in the Identification

The identification of cancer biomarkers that will predict susceptibility to disease and subsequent clinical outcome are key components of future genomics-based tailored medical care. Animal models of disease provide a rich resource for the identification of potential cancer biomarkers. Animal models of prostate cancer in particular offer the potential to identify cancer genes associated with di...