Is e-learning a good tool for natural sciences in general? What platforms are currently available?

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How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

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Hello fellow researcher .. What is the meaning of your name?

I would like to create a small guide containing the meanings of the names .. Thanks to everyone who cooperates with me in achieving it.

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Is There Any Feasible Method To Test Fluorescent Compounds Other Than Fluorescence Spectrometers ??

Is There Any Feasible Method To Test The Efficiency Of Fluorescent Compounds Other Than UV Spectrometers ? Suggestions Would Be Appreciated !

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Is it possible to do piezoelectric coupling in ANSYS-APDL or COMSOL between tapered substrate and rectangular piezoelectric patch?

How to do Piezoelectric coupling in ANSYS-APDL or COMSOL between tapered substrate and rectangular piezoelectric patch? Piezoelectric coupling between the rectangular substrate and rectangular...

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Does anyone know HRM channel in a 2 plex QIAGEN Rotor- Gene Q qPCR can be used as a separate channel?

I am going to have 3 different probes in my qPCR work that I am going to do. But I realized that the machine we have in the lab is a Rotor-Gene Q 2plex HRM Platform, saying it has green, yellow,...

01 March 2021 8,544 1 View

Adherance of Polyaniline coating over stainless steel?

Is the electropolymerisation of polyaniline coating over stainless steel (SS) via Cyclic voltammetry technique is really adherant? Else how to improve the adhesion of the coating, whether any...

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How can you bring two structures together to create an adhesive bond in LAMMPS?

I have created an Ice 1h crystalline structure and an Aluminium substrate structure and equilibrated both at 250K. Now I need to bring them together in a way that an adhesive bond is created....

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Does anyone have the experience of using Taq Man probes in the QIAGEN Rotar- Gene qPCR machine?

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Why is the sum of the elements in a row in a Q matrix equal to zero?

When explaining substitution models, the substitutions are expressed as Q matrix. Why is the sum of the elements in a row zero?

28 February 2021 3,864 3 View

How to model the battery pack in PSIM or PSCAD?

Hello, I have simulated a single battery cell using Thevenin equivalent circuit. For a battery pack, I have a large number of cells connected in series and parallel connections. Is there any way...

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error in running a model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

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error in modelling model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

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MGL tools

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How climate change will influences human and animal behavioral change?

The role of climate change influencing the human behavior as well as economics interest

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flexibility of polymers chain

effect of double bond on the flexibility of polymers

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i have some problem with chtMultiRegionSimpleFoam

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: Maximum number of iterations exceeded From function Foam::scalar Foam::species::thermo::T(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar) const) const [with Thermo = Foam::hConstThermo >; Type = Foam::sensibleEnthalpy; Foam::scalar = double; Foam::species::thermo = Foam::species::thermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy>] in file /home/ubuntu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.1/src/thermophysicalModels/specie/lnInclude/thermoI.H at line 66. FOAM aborting #0 Foam::error::printStack(Foam::Ostream&) at ??:? #1 Foam::error::abort() at ??:? #2 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::calculate() at ??:? #3 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::correct() at ??:? #4 ? at ??:? #5 __libc_start_main in "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6" #6 ? at ??:?

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Formulation of polymer color flakes

I am writing to request some information for making polymer color flakes. I would appreciate the help.

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Why should we choose deep learning to machine learning? Why is CNN better for image classification? Can I get Typical Answer?

What Characteristics makes CNN work better?

03 March 2021 1,458 4 View

What are some of the research gaps in machine learning and artificial intelligence in africa?

i would to know some of the research gaps in the artificial intelligence field in most african countries.

03 March 2021 6,145 3 View

How can the use of Jolly Phonics improves the quality of reading, speaking and writing in rural disadvantaged communities in Papua New Guinea?

Jolly Phonics reading program is an effective way to teach early reading to young learners. How can lectures at the university prepare early childhood student teachers to teach Jolly Phonics to...

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Laura Bonofiglio

I only know moodle that is friendly an easy to use. Also is open source. We used this platform at Univeristy of Buenos Aires.

(Moodle.org: open-source community-based tools for learning

https://moodle.org)

André Antunes

Thanks! But have you used it specifically for natural sciences and wet-lab alternatives? Could you add some links to content examples?

We used for discussion some topics, to include the lectures in the web and to solved students´s doubts when we are teaching Microbiology.

Fatima Bendella

I think moodle is very suitable for every course content and more this platform is in open source. Programming with moodle is very pleasant

Ana Teodoro

Hello

@André: We have used moodle to support the wet-lab activities. Please check out the following proceedings paper:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225076633_PRE-SERVICE_TEACHERS_IDEAS_OF_COLLABORATIVE_WORK_WHEN_USING_A_WIKI_TO_CONSTRUCT_A_LAB_NOTEBOOK?ev=prf_pub

I know that in FEUP José Ferreira has been investigating the use of virtual labs to teach engineering related topics. You may want to check it out.

Ana

Conference Paper PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS IDEAS OF COLLABORATIVE WORK WHEN USING ...

León Samaniego

Hola! e-learning platforms that are good in my experience as student: Blackboard (http://www.blackboard.com/) and Edmodo (http://www.edmodo.com/), they are friendly and easy to use. We used them for read articles, send homeworks, discuss some topics and take tests in Blackboard.

I only know the virtual laboratory from University of Utah (http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/), is a good tool for learning genetics and molecular biology.

I started working with a Japanese platform WebELS DESIGNED to students in Ph-D, it is very pleasant. It has two modes: e-learning and e-meeting.

It's e-meeting module provides a good synchronization of slides of the course or conference with the video. I invite you to try especially since it is open source.