Why use CLC bio's educational concept?
The education package has many benefits for both teachers, students, and the university as a whole.
Teachers save time and get high-quality education materials. This means that focus can be more on the actual teaching and less on technical and practical problems when creating education material. Students don't have to spend time learning a number of different tools in order to be able to understand the fundamental concepts.
With CLC bio's intuitive and integrated software, the time spent on learning the underlying concepts is dramatically increased.Universities benefit from the high scientific and educational level of the CLC Education Package, contributing to a high standard of the bioinformatics course.
Below, some benefits for each of the groups are listed in detail.
Teachers
- Option of teaching based on today's most advanced bioinformatics software
- Save time on the preparing of educational material
- Save time previously spent for technical obstacles with bioinformatics tools
- Combine relevant lessons to match curriculum of the course
- Education material readily available in pdf, PowerPoint, and Word for easy distribution
- Education material easily adjusted to fit the specific aims of the course
- Automatic update of education materials and software as science develops
- Free user support
- CLC bio offers courses to train teachers in the software and the educational concepts. (train-the-trainer)
- Teacher's software can also be used for research purposes
Students
- Learn bioinformatics using state-of-the-art software
- Save time previously spent on technical problems with various tools
- Focus on the underlying principles of bioinformatics instead of technicalities
- Free user support
- Learning the CLC Main Workbench gives access to a wide variety of relevant tools in other contexts
University
- Fully integrated solution: Software, Education material, Developer Kit, Support
- "Train-the-trainer"
- Very effective concept implies lowest Total Cost of Ownership
- Highest standard of science and bioinformatics software molding very high standard of graduates
- CLC bio's solutions can fulfill all bioinformatics needs in both education and research.
- Used by universities all over the world
- Continuous development of software and hardware ensures the universities' position among the best in the world
- Modular structure gives different universities a customized solution aimed either at the bachelor/undergraduate or master/graduate level
- Training of teachers by CLC bio's world-class bioinformatics experts
