Abstract: Online learning initia-tives over the past decade have become increasingly comprehen-sive in their selection of courses and sophisticated in their presen-tation, culminating in the recent announcement of a number of consortium and startup activities that promise to make a university education on the internet, free of charge, a real possibility. At this pivotal moment it is appropriate to explore the potential for obtaining comprehensive bioinformatics training with currently existing free video resources. This article pre-sents such a bioinformatics curric-ulum in the form of a virtual course catalog, together with editorial commentary, and an assessment of strengths, weaknesses, and likely future directions for open online learning in this field. Online Learning Comes of Age Online academic ‘‘courseware’ ’ at the university level has now been available to the public for a decade, the earliest concerted effort having originated in 2002 with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and their OpenCour-seWare initiative

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for an academic year, and one credit corresponds to 25-30 hours of work 28 (http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learningpolicy/doc48_en.htm). This makes it possible for students to keep in rather good control as to what we expect from them after having completed each course and the expected workload to get

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aspect champ moyen contrôlable. Cela nous permet de suivre l’évolution de la transition vitreuse dynamique entre le champ moyen et la dimension finie. Nous montrons également que ce modèle réalise en champ moyen une approximation de la dynamique comparable, mais pas équivalente, à la théorie de couplage

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I discuss Julian Barbour's Machian theories of dynamics, and his proposal that a Machian perspective enables one to solve the problem of time in quantum ge-ometrodynamics (by saying that there is no time!). I concentrate on his recent