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Open Courseware and Resources

- Biology: natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy.
(Wikipedia)

About Biosciences

The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world.

Biosciences - Resource Page

Prime Sites

  • Centre for Bioscience, Higher Education Academy (UK) - supports network of learning and teaching practitioners involved in HE bioscience, initiate gather and disseminate examples of good practice in learning teaching and assessment: Events & Themed work, Resources & Publications, Funding & Recognition, Networks, Bioscience Departments, Staff & Educational, Support for New Lecturers, Networks and Special Interest Groups, HE in FE, Students

  • WWW Virtual Library, Biosciences - animal health, wellbeing & rights, biotechnology, botany, developmental biology, forest genetics & tree breeding, microbiology, mycology, neurobiology, parasitology, physiology & biophysics, plant microarrays, whales

Other Sites

Animals in Research: Law, Policy, and Humane Sciences

JHSPH OpenCourseWare

principles, laws, and policies that influence the use of animal and alternative, non-animal-based (humane sciences) research techniques in biomedical research

Biosciences - Learner Support

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Interactive Science Simulations

Colorado University (US), PhET Interactive Simulations

interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena: ongoing effort to provide extensive suite of simulations to improve the way that physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math are taught and learned

Human Behavioral Biology

Stanford University (US)

25 videos

Play, learning and the brain

Open University (UK), LearningSpace

examines the subject of brain-based learning, focus on the development of the young child's brain, structure and functions of the brain, impact of sensory deprivation, implications of current understandings of brain development for teaching and learning, value of play (particularly outdoor play) in children's learning and the development of their brains

Cognitive Neuroscience

California University (US)

Principles, Mapping the Brain, Cognition, Imaging the Brain, Studying Brain Injury, Functional Imaging, Perception Motor control, Memory, Language, Attention, Component analysis, Consciousness, Cognitive Control, Emotion

Genetic Engineering and Society

California University (US)

examines the historical and scientific study of genetic engineering in medicine, agriculture, and law including examination of social, ethical, and legal issues raised by new technology
 

Introductory Physics

California University

forces, kinetics, equilibria, fluids, waves and heat, presents concepts and methodologies for understanding physical phenomena, (useful preparation for upper division study in biology and architecture)

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