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    NEON Data in the Classroom: Using the QUBES Platform and Faculty Mentoring Networks to Build, Adapt, and Publish Data­-Driven Teaching Resources
    The NEON FMN has been offered for three semesters with 37 faculty participating, resulted in a wide variety of new and adapted modules being publicly available.

    Keywords: NEON FMN

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    OER For CURE Development BIOME 2021 Lightning Talk - YouTube
    Members of the Ciliate Genomics Consortium (CGG) formed a fall working group to brainstorm how to convert existing Course-based Undergraduate Research (CURE) curriculum modules, which have been...

    Keywords: CUREscourse-based research experiences (CUREs)STEM CUREs

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    Machine Learning Meets Medicine with Jenessa Peterson
    Jenessa Peterson is a former teacher turned data scientist/engineer and Director of Learning Engineering at The Learning Agency. Her more recent work in data science has included building a...

    Keywords: data sciencemachine learningmedicine

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    iBEARS Poster
    A description of the new NSF INCLUDES iBEARS network including background, project goals, project outcomes, connections to be made through QUBES, and future directions.
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    Transforming your CUREs with SENCER
    Presentation on Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities given as part of the 2020 BioQUEST & QUBES BIOME Institute: Cultivating Scientific Curiosity.

    Keywords: course based undergraduate research experiencesCURESENCERcivic engagement

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    Universal Design for Learning and Accessibility of the Day
    Short, daily case activity on Universal Design for Learning and Accessibility at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: Universal Design for LearningSummer Workshop 2018

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    Bringing Research Data to the Ecology Classroom: Opportunities, Barriers, and Next Steps
    Organized Oral Session at the Ecological Society of America annual meeting, August 8th, 2017 Portland Oregon.

    Keywords: Ecological Society of America

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    BioGraphI - Biologists and Graph Interpretation: Professional development for an online curriculum to foster data literacy and value diverse identities (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    Biologists and Graph Interpretation (BioGraphI) is an RCN of faculty who work collaboratively to increase student persistence in biology through improving representation of diverse scientists in...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    Faculty Mentoring Networks: A model for professional development in undergraduate quantitative biology education
    Presentation given at ESA 2016 on Faculty Mentoring Networks.

    Keywords: faculty mentoring networksEcological Society of Americaquantitative biology education

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    NSITE - Networking STEM Initiatives to Enhance Adoption of Evidence-Based Practices (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    NSITE is a network of national STEM transformation organizations. The goal of NSITE is to provide a venue for these organizations, that have typically operated in parallel on projects related to...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    Interdisciplinary biology education: a holistic approach to an intractable problem
    Presentation on interdisciplinary biology education at the 2019 Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference

    Keywords: quantitative biologyinterdisciplinarybioinformaticsbiology educationinterdisciplinary education

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    Food, Energy and Water Learning Modules (FEWLM) Workbooks
    FEWLM is a low-cost inquiry-based interdisciplinary STEM prototypical curriculum built on Next Generation Science Standards, systems thinking and informed engineering design pedagogy.

    Keywords: K-12inquiry-based learningNext Generation Science StandardsSystem Thinking

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    Instructor Guide : Integrating Leadership Skills, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Google Tools to learn Chemistry
    Scientific, leadership and recent artificial intelligence skills are integral frameworks of the curriculum. All of them together or individually can enhance knowledge, critical thinking and...

    Keywords: simulationactive learningstemBiochemistryInterdisciplinary STEMfaculty developmentchemistryArtificial IntelligencereflectionUndergraduate: Seniorleadership skillssinstructor traininggoogle tools

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    CUNEL - Connectomes for Undergraduate Neuroscience Education and Learning (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    The Connectomes for Undergraduate Neuroscience Education and Learning (CUNEL) project seeks to bring cutting-edge neuroscience methods into undergraduate classrooms and laboratories in order to...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    Closing the Gap in the Open Educational Resources (OER) Life Cycle for Using Research Data in the Ecology Classroom
    Poster presented at the 2018 meeting of the Ecological Society of America on gaps in the curriculum cycle for open educational resources (OER) and our work supporting sharing and adaptation of...

    Keywords: OEREcological Society of AmericaDIGoer life cycle

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    Strategies for developing a science communicator through authentic science writing assignments
    To prepare biology undergraduates to be able to read and evaluate the primary literature, it is beneficial to teach students how to write documents in the style of professional science style...

    Keywords: communicationPeer reviewscience writing

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    NEON Data in the Classroom: Using the QUBES Platform and Faculty Mentoring Networks to Build, Adapt, and Publish Data-Driven Open Educational Resources
    Poster on the NEON Faculty Mentoring Network presented at the 2019 BioQUEST & QUBES Summer Workshop

    Keywords: faculty mentoring networksNEON2019 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

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    Leveraging Panel Discussions to Promote Positive Representation, Develop Science Identity, and Shift Stereotypes
    The overrepresentation of cis straight white male scientists in examples used in Biology curriculum makes it difficult for students with other axes of diversity (race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality,...

    Keywords: professional developmentEquitydiversityscience identitysense of belongingCentering Student VoicesCareer Paneland InclusionPositive Representation of Diverse ScientistsFostering Community Between Students

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    Ancient Insects
    Create a gallery of fossil organisms and identify distinctive body parts (wings, suckers, modified appendages) from the collection. Analyze and interpret these features to predict what type of...

    Keywords: Evolutionpaleontologynatural history collections#NGSS

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    Digital Intro: Revitalizing the “Introduction to Psychology” course through Project-based Learning
    Welcome to Digital Intro where we are transforming introductory courses into active, project-based experiences. Our projects expose students to a wide range of digital skills as they learn...

    Keywords: psychologyDigital IntroIntroduction to PsychologyIntroductory PsychologyGeneral Psychology

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