Prof. Jed Macosko and colleagues awarded grant to develop interactive e-textbook, BioBook

Jed Macosko, Associate Professor of Physics, along with Dan Johnson, Senior Lecturer in Biology, and Kristen Bennett, Assistant Professor in Education, were awarded a $250,000 grant from the Next Generation Learning Challenge, an initiative funded primarily by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The award is to expand their idea of an interactive e-textbook, called BioBook, and test it at four colleges close to Wake Forest University. For more information see the Wake Forest University News article and the article in the Chronicle of Higher Education.