Tomorrow we start our spring 2021 semester. I am fortunate to be able to teach an online version of the BIT 480/580 Yeast Metabolic Engineering course with my significant other, Claire Gordy. We have planned the course to be asynchronous to provide flexibility and options to students who could benefit from this alternative. Several undergraduates […]
I watched another though-provoking session by Barry Sharpe this afternoon, from the asynchronous Lilly Conference sessions on Educational Theory and Pedagogy. Sharpe used key ideas and quotes from two great books I was able to read this year: Josh Eyler’s How Humans Learn and Flower Darby and James Lang’s Small Teaching Online. The presenter used […]



