The BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium

21 Nov 2024 | Contributor(s): Deborah Rook, Sarah Prescott, Drew LaMar, Sam S Donovan | doi:10.25334/7SFA-7T70

The BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium: A Community of Educators Supporting Evolution and Revolution in STEM Education; Poster presented at National Association of Biology Teachers, November 2024

Building open education ecosystems to facilitate the adoption and adaptation of computational and data-centric tools across undergraduate biology education

22 Oct 2024 | Contributor(s): Drew LaMar, Deborah Rook, Sarah Prescott, Sam S Donovan | doi:10.25334/7QMG-BP02

The OEE-RCN is an NSF-funded Research Coordination Network working at the intersection of Open Science and Open Education Resources (OER) with the goal of lowering barriers to adopting computational and data-centric tools in biology undergraduate education. Four open education ecosystems (OEEs)...

Green Chemistry Modules: Creation and Implementation using Faculty Mentoring Networks (FMNs) as an innovative approach

18 Oct 2024 | Contributor(s): David Laviska, Sarah Prescott | doi:10.25334/B48R-NT71

Oral presentation given at BCCE2024, slidedeck is included as the resource.

Green Chemistry Teaching and Learning Community

18 Oct 2024 | Contributor(s): Sarah Prescott | doi:10.25334/9ZHS-EY72

Oral presentation given at the Millipore Sigma Green Chemistry Symposium - Catalyze: Education to Industry Innovation.

Developing teaching resources through a collaborative, cross-institutional approach

18 Oct 2024 | Contributor(s): Sarah Prescott, David Laviska | doi:10.25334/0XVM-D038

Oral Presentation delivered at the 28th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference, June 4, 2024

Biochemistry Take Home Exam - Alternative Assessment

16 Feb 2024 | Contributor(s): Sarah Prescott | doi:10.25334/HP1G-SE62

This take-home exam part has several creative activities that students can choose from to demonstrate their mastery of concepts in my one-semester General Biochemistry survey course. In addition to the exam instructions, also included is a song list that students can choose from if they opt for...

QB@CC Workshop NABT 2022

07 Nov 2023 | Contributor(s): Melanie Lenahan, Jennifer Lyon Adler, Sarah Prescott, Vedham Karpakakunjaram | doi:10.25334/JSBM-V338

Creating and Implementing Quantitative Biology Lessons with QB@CC, Beneficial for Both Faculty and Students

Experiencing the Inclusive STEM Teaching Project through BioQUEST Learning Communities

31 Oct 2023 | Contributor(s): Sarah Prescott, Deborah Rook, Sharon Maureen Homer-Drummond | doi:10.25334/YMVY-7B79

Poster presented at the NABT 2023 Conference in November 2023.

Teaching Modules from QB@CC: Tools to Improve Biology Student’s Quantitative Skills

10 Oct 2023 | Contributor(s): Joseph Esquibel, Jillian Marie Miller, Jennifer Glee Buntz, Vedham Karpakakunjaram, Sarah Prescott | doi:10.25334/32YZ-4N14

NABT and QB@CC hosted a special webinar to explore the QB@CC OER entitled Sizes, Scales, and Specialization.

Experiencing the Inclusive STEM Teaching Project through BioQUEST Learning Communities

03 Aug 2023 | Contributor(s): Sarah Prescott, Deborah Rook, Sharon Maureen Homer-Drummond | doi:10.25334/0WM7-ZZ60

Poster presented at the Gordon UBER Conference in June 2023

Experiencing the Inclusive STEM Teaching Project through BioQUEST Learning Communities

21 Jun 2023 | Contributor(s): Sarah Prescott, Deborah Rook, Sharon Maureen Homer-Drummond | doi:10.25334/K30A-G979

Poster presented at the Gordon UBER Conference in June 2023

QB@CC- Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges (RCN-UBE Introduction)

25 May 2023 | Contributor(s): Sarah Prescott, Vedham Karpakakunjaram | doi:10.25334/PB2Z-YF50

Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges (QB@CC) is a National Science Foundation (NSF) supported project that received funding in 2019. The long-term goal of QB@CC is to drive the disciplinary expectation that all biology courses should significantly enhance student's quantitative skills. ...

Inclusive STEM Teaching Project Working Group- BIOME 2022

09 Dec 2022 | Contributor(s): Sarah Prescott, Deborah Rook, Molly Allison Phillips, Jaime Blair, John Howard Starnes, Melanie Lenahan, Sharon Maureen Homer-Drummond, Tamara Basham | doi:10.25334/7SH5-VD77

After the BIOME 2022, a group got together to take the Inclusive STEM Teaching Project course and have weekly discussions during the course.

QB@CC: An interdisciplinary network model for developing and disseminating OER to support pedagogical change

02 Jun 2022 | Contributor(s): Sarah Prescott, Deborah Rook | doi:10.25334/XKSW-HZ63

Presentation given at the Northeast OER Summer 2022 We describe the interdisciplinary network that has been developing and sharing quantitative skills-based OER in biological sciences. The participants will be able to access and explore the resources published on the QUBESHub platform. We...

Integrating Social Justice into your STEM Classroom: Redlining & Health

24 Feb 2022 | Contributor(s): Mary Mulcahy, Ethell Vereen, Marci Cole Ekberg, Jennifer Kovacs, Durrain Ansari-Yan, Tamara Basham, Mackenzie Boyer, Matthew Joshua Heard, Adriane Clark Jones, Shannon Jones, Erica Lannan, Pat Marsteller, Denise Piechnik, Sarah Prescott, Gustavo Requena Santos | doi:10.25334/S97D-E506

Workshop about models for introducing social justice issues into classes developed in a Faculty Mentoring Network. Presented at the 2021 BIOME Institute.

Pre-lesson: Introduction to BLAST

22 Sep 2021 | Contributor(s): Sarah Prescott | doi:10.25334/EJ4N-7074

Genome Solver began as a way to teach undergraduate faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics; no coding or scripting is required. This pre-lesson introduces the BLAST tool.

Pre-lesson: Introduction to BLAST

22 Sep 2021 | Contributor(s): Sarah Prescott | doi:10.25334/NWR7-DT11

Genome Solver began as a way to teach undergraduate faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics; no coding or scripting is required. This pre-lesson introduces the BLAST tool.

Integrating Social Justice into your STEM Classroom: Redlining & Health

28 Jul 2021 | Contributor(s): Mary Mulcahy, Ethell Vereen, Marci Cole Ekberg, Jennifer Kovacs, Durrain Ansari-Yan, Tamara Basham, Mackenzie Boyer, Matthew Joshua Heard, Adriane Clark Jones, Shannon Jones, Erica Lannan, Pat Marsteller, Sarah Prescott, Gustavo Requena Santos | doi:10.25334/Y5B6-6R35

Workshop about models for introducing social justice issues into classes developed in a Faculty Mentoring Network. Presented at the 2021 BIOME Institute.

Integrating Social Justice into your STEM Classroom: Redlining & Environmental Science

25 Jul 2021 | Contributor(s): Tamara Basham, Denise Piechnik, Durrain Ansari-Yan, Mackenzie Boyer, Marci Cole Ekberg, Matthew Joshua Heard, Adriane Clark Jones, Shannon Jones, Jennifer Kovacs, Erica Lannan, Pat Marsteller, Mary Mulcahy, Sarah Prescott, Gustavo Requena Santos, Ethell Vereen | doi:10.25334/CZ5X-A141

Materials for the workshop on social justice presented at the 2021 BIOME Institute.

BioQUEST / QUBES Community Standards for Events

04 Jun 2021 | Contributor(s): Sarah Prescott, Nicole Chodkowski, Sam S Donovan, Adam Fagen, Kristin Jenkins, Drew LaMar, Hayley Orndorf, Deborah Rook, Jim Smith, Margaret Waterman | doi:10.25334/7T7E-QV52

Community standards and expectations for in-person and online events hosted by BioQUEST and QUBES.

Social Justice Working Group - Scientist Spotlights

01 Dec 2020 | Contributor(s): Pat Marsteller, Sarah Prescott, Justin Michael Bradshaw, Kristen Butela, Pratima Jindal, Rachel Pigg, Merrie Renee Richardson, Sheela Vemu, Suann Yang | doi:10.25334/BGDE-6V78

This is a reporting out of the work done by participants in the Social Justice Working group that formed as part of the BIOME 2020 Institute, which is focused on the creation and use of scientist spotlights in the classroom.

Social Justice Working Group - Scientist Spotlights

03 Dec 2020 | Contributor(s): Pat Marsteller, Sarah Prescott, Justin Michael Bradshaw, Kristen Butela, Robert E Furrow, Pratima Jindal, Rachel Pigg, Merrie Renee Richardson, Sheela Vemu, Suann Yang | doi:10.25334/H2QY-1H85

This is a reporting out of the work done by participants in the Social Justice Working group that formed as part of the BIOME 2020 Institute, which is focused on the creation and use of scientist spotlights in the classroom.

Open QUBES - A Faculty Use Case of Open Practice

18 Nov 2019 | Contributor(s): Sarah Prescott | doi:10.25334/PR5J-SC51

QUBES has been a critical component of my continued success as an open scholar. This poster details several of these outcomes with my lived experience working with QUBES as an Open scholar as a case study.

The QUBES Resource System: Integrating open educational practices into diverse education reform communities

28 Oct 2019 | Contributor(s): Sam S Donovan, Drew LaMar, Hayley Orndorf, Sarah Prescott | doi:10.25334/X9F5-7C81

Presentation on the QUBES Resource System given at the 16th Annual Open Education Conference

Use of Peerwise and Twitter in Open Pedagogy

10 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Sarah Prescott | doi:10.25334/Q48M69

This presentation will demonstrate the use of two open tools (Peerwise and Twitter) to engage students in creating and discussing course content.