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JoVE, the first peer-reviewed scientific video journal, has released an innovative new database of educational videos. The new Science Education database features collections of instructional videos designed to help teachers provide visual examples of basic laboratory techniques and to help students learn through clear demonstrations that they may review as often as necessary throughout their course and subsequent classes.
The Science Education database has launched with two collections, General Laboratory Techniques and Basic Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology. Each collection features 15 videos with topics ranging from “An Introduction to the Centrifuge” to “Bacterial Transformation: The Heat Shock Method.” Each video introduces the viewer to the technique used in the laboratory and gives step-by-step instruction for completing the method.
Videos have become an increasingly popular way to learn as technology has reduced the barriers to creating and consuming high quality educational videos. “This new collection of videos will help revolutionize how laboratory skills are taught and learned" says Moshe Pritsker, CEO of JoVE. “Instead of a single demonstration during class, students will be able to view the instruction repeatedly and learn at their own pace. This will not only increase their speed of learning and depth of knowledge, but also decrease the waste of laboratory and educational resources for universities and colleges.”
JoVE also expects the Science Education video database to be helpful to high schools where laboratory resources may be more limited than in higher education. Teachers can utilize these videos to supplement classroom instruction and for flipped classroom lessons. Flipped classrooms, where students view lessons at home and work on “homework” in class with their instructor, have come into popularity over the past 5 years. Videos such as the ones in JoVE’s Science Education classroom are the ideal resource for teachers implementing this teaching method.
The Science Education database is now available at www.jove.com/science-education-collection
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About JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments:JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, is the first and only PubMed/MEDLINE-indexed, peer-reviewed journal devoted to publishing scientific research in a video format. Using an international network of videographers, JoVE films and edits videos of researchers performing new experimental techniques at top universities, allowing students and scientists to learn them much more quickly. As of April 2013, JoVE has published video-protocols from an international community of nearly 6,000 authors in the fields of biology, medicine, chemistry, and physics.
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