La Trobe University Senior Lecturer and biochemist, Dr Julian Pakay, recently won the 2024 Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology SDR Scientific Education Award for his contributions to teaching quantitative literacy in biomedical science. His work in this area culminated in the La Trobe eBureau open educational resource Foundations of Biomedical Science: Quantitative Literacy Theory and Problems.
“I am very thankful for the support I have received from my colleagues and La Trobe University in general with this project. It represents a long journey focusing on building quantitative literacy skills in both commencing and continuing students and has allowed us to develop interventions in our curriculum and resources like this”, Julian says.
“It has been a fantastic experience to partner with the La Trobe eBureau on this project. They have been incredibly supportive, knowledgeable, and they have been a continual source for creative ideas and solutions to problems.”
The La Trobe eBureau works with academics to create high-quality resources for online and blended subjects, adopted by academic institutions around the world, granting our authors international recognition.
About the book
A fantastic resource for any subject in the biomedical field, Foundations of Biomedical Science: Quantitative Literacy Theory and Problems uses the prism of biomedicine to reduce students’ anxieties around quantitative literacy and improve their skills and confidence in mathematics and quantitative data.
This open textbook teaches readers how to:
- interpret quantitative data
- understand basic mathematical concepts
- apply these concepts to authentic problems in biology and biomedicine.
Foundations of Biomedical Science is available at no cost to students and can be adapted to suit any course you are teaching. You can access it on the eBureau website.
