Value of Mistakes
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03 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4TH9C
This module familiarizes students with brain research describing our physiological response to mistakes, and how making mistakes is a useful part of learning.
Using gross parasites to sneak even grosser equations into the introductory biology classroom
03 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4F09S
This was an oral presentation at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists in Omaha, NE.
Two themes, one talk: Distributing quantitative faculty expertise to classrooms that need it in real-time & measuring professional contributions to undergraduate education
02 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Jeremy M Wojdak, Sam S Donovan, Tom Gower, Kristin Jenkins | doi:10.25334/Q4G093
Presentation given at the Seventh International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology: Education and Research 2014, Claremont, CA. Discussing quantitative biology education.
Sustainability and Justice: Challenges and Opportunities for an Open STEM Education
08 Feb 2022 | Contributor(s): Carrie Diaz Eaton, Kaitlin Bonner, Karen Cangialosi, Bryan Dewsbury, Maggie Diamond-Stanic, Jason Douma, Michelle Smith, Jeremy M Wojdak, Robin Taylor | doi:10.25334/937V-SK47
Combining understanding of OER sustainability and equity and justice to carve out ideas for the future of STEM open education.
SUMS4Bio - Video tutorials in math and stats for biology students
22 Aug 2018 | Contributor(s): Jeremy M Wojdak, Caleb Adams, Dan Metz | doi:10.25334/Q4KT5S
Links to videos and pdf tutorials for core mathematical and statistical concepts used in biology
SCORE - Network for an Open and Accessible Biology Education: The promise of equity and the challenge of sustainability (RCU-UBE Introduction)
16 May 2023 | Contributor(s): Carrie Diaz Eaton, Michelle Smith, Kaitlin Bonner, Jason Douma, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/R3E0-HP22
The mission of the SCORE-UBE Network is to help our Network participants achieve their sustainability and broader impact goals by working together to amplify the value and reach of open education in STEM and to align our resources and practices with the principles of anti-racism, equity, social...
Reflective Writing
03 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4ZB1V
This activity introduces the research showing a benefit of reflective writing, and then uses a modified version of the prompt from Park et al. to provide practice.
QUBES: Supporting faculty in the teaching of mathematical biology
22 Dec 2017 | Contributor(s): Carrie Diaz Eaton, Sam S Donovan, Tom Gower, Kristin Jenkins, Drew LaMar, DorothyBelle Poli, Bob Sheehy, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4HX09
Abstract for a presentation that was part of a minisymposium at SMB 2015.
QUBES: Building a community to promote undergraduate quantitative biology education
14 Aug 2017 | Contributor(s): Sam S Donovan, Carrie Diaz Eaton, Kristin Jenkins, Drew LaMar, Jeremy M Wojdak, Gabriela Hamerlinck, Arietta Fleming-Davies, Hayley Orndorf | doi:10.25334/Q44T0V
QUBES is designed to improve communication among educators, assist faculty in understanding and implementing novel content and teaching strategies in their classrooms, and create an academic reward system that emphasizes teaching as well as research.
13 Jul 2018 | Contributor(s): Sam S Donovan, Carrie Diaz Eaton, Kristin Jenkins, Drew LaMar, Jeremy M Wojdak, Nicole Chodkowski, Gabriela Hamerlinck, Deborah Rook, Elia Crisucci, Hayley Orndorf | doi:10.25334/Q41D8T
Poster on the QUBES project presented at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop
QUBES: An education gateway for professional development, OER sharing, and project support
23 Apr 2019 | Contributor(s): Sam S Donovan, Kristin Jenkins, Drew LaMar, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4CF20
Poster about QUBES as an education gateway presented at the 2019 ASCN Transforming Institutions
QUBES: An education gateway for accelerating undergraduate biology education reform
11 Dec 2020 | Contributor(s): Sam S Donovan, Jeremy M Wojdak, Kristin Jenkins, Drew LaMar | doi:10.25334/570Q-HQ07
Poster about QUBES as an education gateway presented at the 2020 Partners@QUBES Leadership Summit.
QUBES: a community focused on supporting teaching and learning in quantitative biology
02 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Sam S Donovan, Carrie Diaz Eaton, Tom Gower, Kristin Jenkins, Drew LaMar, DorothyBelle Poli, Bob Sheehy, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4H09D
This letter provides an overview of the Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) Project funded through the National Science Foundation.
QUBES-ESA partnership uses online Faculty Mentoring Networks to prepare faculty for teaching quantitative biology to undergraduates
13 Aug 2018 | Contributor(s): Nicole Chodkowski, Gabriela Hamerlinck, R Deborah Overath, Teresa Mourad, Kristin Jenkins, Sam S Donovan, Arietta Fleming-Davies, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4G71G
Poster on Faculty Mentoring Networks presented at ESA 2018
QUBES Modules Ready or Adaptable for Online Learning: Google Sheet
08 May 2020 | Contributor(s): Skylar Hopkins, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/XSFK-B766
A dynamic database of QUBES modules that are ready or adaptable for online learning. Anyone can use or contribute to this database.
Phenotypic plasticity and predation image files
29 Aug 2018 | Contributor(s): Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q47D8P
Database of image files for AIMS Resource: Phenotypic plasticity and predation
Phenotypic plasticity and predation
24 Aug 2018 | Contributor(s): Jeremy M Wojdak, Justin Touchon | doi:10.25334/Q4GX34
Students predict changes to tadpole morphology and coloration after considering characteristics of the predator species and the prey themselves then test their own hypotheses (typically with t-tests or ANOVA) by collecting novel data via image...
29 Aug 2018 | Contributor(s): Jeremy M Wojdak, Justin Touchon | doi:10.25334/Q4XX4J
Number Sense
03 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4313R
In this activity, students demonstrate their own innate number sense by playing an online game that asks them to estimate quantities that are flashed on screen for only milliseconds. Research suggests that all humans (and many other species as well!) are
Multiple choice quiz questions for biostatistics
10 Aug 2020 | Contributor(s): Skylar Hopkins, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/SYXN-W519
A set of 157 multiple choice quiz questions for biostatistics courses, organized and searchable by 18 concepts/skills.
Modules Ready or Adaptable for Online Learning: Google Sheet
11 May 2020 | Contributor(s): Skylar Hopkins, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/NVM6-TH15
A dynamic database of modules discoverable on QUBES that are ready or adaptable for online learning. Anyone can use or contribute to this database.
Meeting Report: Sustainability Challenges for Open Resources to promote an Equitable Undergraduate Biology Education (SCORE-UBE) Network
13 Aug 2020 | Contributor(s): Carrie Diaz Eaton, Kaitlin Bonner, Karen Cangialosi, Bryan Dewsbury, Maggie Diamond-Stanic, Jason Douma, Michelle Smith, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/V5BY-ZT28
We report on the SCORE-UBE Network Summit, which involved participants from multiple sectors in open educational resources (OER) in an on-going discussion about sustainability of OER in tandem with equity, and social justice.
Math anxiety and attitudes in biology undergraduate students
19 Jun 2018 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4211P
Session presentation for BIOMAAP at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop
Learning with All Your Senses: Mathematical Manipulatives Enhance Student Comprehension of Biological Models
21 Aug 2019 | Contributor(s): Holly D Gaff, John R Jungck, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/M4GB-N704
Handout for a session presentation on kinesthetic learning at the 2019 BioQUEST & QUBES Summer Workshop
Leaf cutter ant foraging
24 Aug 2018 | Contributor(s): Jeremy M Wojdak, Justin Touchon, Myra Hughey | doi:10.25334/Q4RB0M
This module introduces students to leaf-cutter ants in the rainforests of Panama. Students derive their own research hypotheses regarding ant foraging or allometric scaling relationships.