Developing an interdisciplinary, distributed graduate course for twenty-first century scientists

BioScience

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 182-188

  Wagner, Helene H ^a   Murphy, Melanie A ^b   Holderegger, Rolf ^c   Waits, Lisette ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

blended learning; experiential learning; international research collaboration; landscape genetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856842917     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2012.62.2.11     Document Type: Article

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