TY - JOUR
T1 - Using interactive digital notebooks for bioscience and informatics education
AU - Davies, Alan
AU - Hooley, Frances
AU - Causey-Freeman, Peter
AU - Eleftheriou, Iliada
AU - Moulton, Georgina
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Davies et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2020/11/5
Y1 - 2020/11/5
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85095786597
U2 - 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008326
DO - 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008326
M3 - Article
C2 - 33151926
SN - 1553-7358
VL - 16
SP - e1008326
JO - PLoS computational biology
JF - PLoS computational biology
IS - 11
M1 - e1008326
ER -
