Using interactive digital notebooks for bioscience and informatics education.
Interactive digital notebooks provide an opportunity for researchers and educators to carry out data analysis and report the results in a single digital format. Further to just being digital, the format allows for rich content to be created in order to interact with the code and data contained in su...
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| author | Alan Davies Frances Hooley Peter Causey-Freeman Iliada Eleftheriou Georgina Moulton |
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| description | Interactive digital notebooks provide an opportunity for researchers and educators to carry out data analysis and report the results in a single digital format. Further to just being digital, the format allows for rich content to be created in order to interact with the code and data contained in such a notebook to form an educational narrative. This primer introduces some of the fundamental aspects involved in using Jupyter notebooks in an educational setting for teaching in the bio/health informatics disciplines. We also provide 2 case studies that detail how we used Jupyter notebooks to teach non-coders programming skills on a blended Master's degree module for a Health Informatics programme and a fully online distance learning unit on Programming for a postgraduate certificate (PG Cert) in Clinical Bioinformatics with a more technical audience. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6285bff2514042f0b14543f33b2d9a1b2022-12-21T20:06:48ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Computational Biology1553-734X1553-73582020-11-011611e100832610.1371/journal.pcbi.1008326Using interactive digital notebooks for bioscience and informatics education.Alan DaviesFrances HooleyPeter Causey-FreemanIliada EleftheriouGeorgina MoultonInteractive digital notebooks provide an opportunity for researchers and educators to carry out data analysis and report the results in a single digital format. Further to just being digital, the format allows for rich content to be created in order to interact with the code and data contained in such a notebook to form an educational narrative. This primer introduces some of the fundamental aspects involved in using Jupyter notebooks in an educational setting for teaching in the bio/health informatics disciplines. We also provide 2 case studies that detail how we used Jupyter notebooks to teach non-coders programming skills on a blended Master's degree module for a Health Informatics programme and a fully online distance learning unit on Programming for a postgraduate certificate (PG Cert) in Clinical Bioinformatics with a more technical audience.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008326 |
| spellingShingle | Alan Davies Frances Hooley Peter Causey-Freeman Iliada Eleftheriou Georgina Moulton Using interactive digital notebooks for bioscience and informatics education. PLoS Computational Biology |
| title | Using interactive digital notebooks for bioscience and informatics education. |
| title_full | Using interactive digital notebooks for bioscience and informatics education. |
| title_fullStr | Using interactive digital notebooks for bioscience and informatics education. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Using interactive digital notebooks for bioscience and informatics education. |
| title_short | Using interactive digital notebooks for bioscience and informatics education. |
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