Integrating Natural History Collections into Undergraduate Education: Creating the Resources and Growing the Community
In 2010, the United States National Science Foundation funded a research coordination network (RCN), Advancing Integration of Museums into Undergraduate Education: AIM-UP! (AIMUP.unm.edu). That project has produced a thriving national network of undergraduate educators, curators, collection managers, database managers, and scientists, that is identifying and developing novel ways to use natural history collections (e.g. herbarium specimens) in undergraduate education. To extend this work and broaden the visibility and utility of AIM-UP resources we have launched a collaborative effort among AIM-UP! participants, that extends our project to the Integrated Digitized Biocollections Education and Outreach working group (iDigBio.org), the Esri EdCommunity (edcommunity.esri.com), Kurator developers (wiki.datakurator.net/web/Kurator), and the Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis community (QUBEShub.org). We report on a plant/pollinator co-evolution collaborative educa … show more
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