Danford's online classtime is usually spent in a variety of activities. Usually he posts the assignments on a generic notice board so that students can progress at their own rate and in their own order. For an hour's time at DU, he would post 3 or 4 chores. A couple of weeks into the course, I asked on the Vax Notes Conference if learning microbiology could be fun. The responses were overwhelmingly positive.
Students quickly learn that precise typing and precise attention to details are a necessity.
4. explore some of the moral and ethical questions facing students in the health sciences in the context of our global community. In future articles Danford indicated that he would write about the vax Notes Conference and about further MOO teaching experiences.