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A grasp of the logic and practice of science is essential to understand the rest of the world around us. To that end, the CMB4e iText remains focused on experimental support for what we know about cell and molecular biology, and on showing students the relationship of cell structure and function.
Rather than trying to be a comprehensive reference book, the Basic CMB4e itext selectively details investigative questions, methods and experiments that lead to our understanding of cell biology. This focus is nowhere more obvious than in the chapter learning objectives and in web-links.
In addition to external online resources, links to the author’s short YouTube voice-over PowerPoint (VOP) videos with optional closed captions are embedded near relevant text. Each video is identified by a play-video symbol and can be opened by clicking a descriptive title or using QR bar codes, such as the example below
The Learning objectives align with content and ask students to use new knowledge to make connections and deepen their understanding of concept and experiment.
All external links are intended to expand or explain textual content and concepts and to engage student curiosity. All images in the iText and just-in-time VOPs are by the author or are from public domain or Creative Commons (CC) licensed sources.
Beyond the Basic CMB4e, a freely available Annotated version of the iText contains interactive links and formative assessments in the form of Challenge boxes.
The Instructors CMB4e version models additional interactive features, including short 25 Words or Less writing assignments that can be incorporated into almost any course management system, many of which the author has assigned as homework in his flipped, blended course.
These assessments aim to reinforce writing as well as critical thinking skills. As a Sample Chapter, Chapter 1 of the Instructors version of CMB4e is freely available for download; the complete Instructors version is available on request.
My goal in writing and updating this iText is to make the content engaging, free and comparable in accuracy and currency to commercial textbooks. I encourage instructors to use the interactive features of the iText (critical thought questions, YouTube videos, etc.) to challenge their students.
About the Author
Dr. Bergtrom is Professor (Emeritus) of Biological Sciences and a former Learning Technology Consultant in the UW-Milwaukee Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Scientific interests include cell and molecular biology and evolution.
Pedagogic interests are blended and online instruction and the use of technology to serve more active and engaged teaching and learning. He has taught face-to-face, fully online, blended and flipped classes at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
He also developed and co-instructed Teaching with Technology, an interdisciplinary course aimed at graduate students that they might someday find themselves teaching.
In his 40+ years of teaching and research experience, he has tested and incorporated pedagogically proven teaching technologies into his courses. His research papers have been supplemented with publications on active blended, online and flipped classroom methods
Table of Chapters:
Preface
Chapter 1: Cell Tour, Life’s Properties and Evolution, Studying Cells
Chapter 2: Basic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry
Chapter 3: Details of Protein Structure
Chapter 4: Bioenergetics
Chapter 5: Enzyme Catalysis and Kinetics
Chapter 6: Glycolysis, the Krebs Cycle and the Atkins Diet
Chapter 7: Electron Transport, Oxidative Phosphorylation and
Photosynthesis
Chapter 8: DNA Structure, Chromosomes and Chromatin
Chapter 9: Details of DNA Replication & DNA Repair
Chapter 10: Transcription and RNA Processing
Chapter 11: The Genetic Code and Translation
Chapter 12: Regulation of Transcription and Epigenetic Inheritance
Chapter 13: Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression
Chapter 14: Repetitive DNA, A Eukaryotic Genomic Phenomenon
Chapter 15: DNA Technologies
Chapter 16: Membrane Structure
Chapter 17: Membrane Function
Chapter 18: The Cytoskeleton and Cell Motility
Chapter 19: Cell Division and the Cell Cycle
Chapter 20: The Origins of Life
Epilogue
Appendix I: List of Illustrations & Sources
Appendix II: Context-Embedded YouTube Videos
Appendix III: Other Useful Links
About The Book:
Publisher : Creative Commons (cc-by) license
Language : English
Pages : 629
File : PDF, 9 MB
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