QUBES: An education gateway for professional development, OER sharing, and project support
Author(s): Sam S Donovan1, Kristin Jenkins2, Drew LaMar3, Jeremy M Wojdak4
1. University of Pittsburgh 2. BioQUEST 3. College of William and Mary 4. Radford University
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The Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education & Synthesis (QUBES; qubeshub.org) project has adopted a "scientific gateways" model to accelerate undergraduate biology education reform. As such, QUBES provides an accessible and integrated cyberinfrastructure that makes it possible to coordinate and streamline the work of a diverse and distributed community of biology educators. The QUBES services include an online professional development model (faculty mentoring networks – FMNs), an open educational resources publication and versioning platform, diverse types of community hosting, workshop support, and access to cloud-based computational resources. The integration of these functionalities within a single gateway provides important opportunities for both individual faculty and education projects to engage with the professional community and amplify their scholarship. We argue that professional participation through a scientific gateway reflects a more robust and responsive set of strategies for collaborative STEM education reform.
Notes
This poster was updated for presentatino at the ASCN Transforming Institutions conference.
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Researchers should cite this work as follows:
- Sam S Donovan, Jenkins, K., Drew LaMar, Wojdak, J. M. (2019). QUBES: An education gateway for professional development, OER sharing, and project support. QUBES Leadership Team, (Version 2.0). QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/Q4CF20