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    Rstudio cheatsheets
    Cheatsheets are quickstart guides to using some of the most popular packages and features of Rstudio.

    Keywords: R

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    Developing Open Source Plugins for the Educational Gateway QUBEShub: Expanding Community Reach and Building a Robust Open Education Resource Ecosystem
    We present work on development of (1) a component to record, track and display the multitude of partners and professional organizations involved in the QUBES mission, and (2) a component to bring...

    Keywords: OERscience gatewaysgateways17

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    Small Organisms with Big Consequences: Understanding the Microbial World Around Us
    Creating a hands-on lab that conveys important information while simultaneously allowing for student autonomy can be difficult. This is particularly true for the field of microbiology, in which...

    Keywords: disease transmissionmicrobiologymicrobiomeliterature reviewPeer reviewPathogensHealth and WellnessThe Scientific Method

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    UNVEIL-ing Framework to Summer Research Experiences
    Undergraduate research opportunities help foster a science identity and increase retention in STEM majors and transition into the STEM workforce. Moreover, these opportunities have stronger results...
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    Built-in Flexibility: Lessons learned to engage your community virtually
    Materials and resources for "Built-in Flexibility," an episode of the webinar series, "Adapting to COVID-19: Resources for Natural History Collections in a New Virtual World."

    Keywords: professional developmentidigbionatural history collectionswebinarcommunity engagementonline eventsonline professional developmentaccess

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    Facilitating the implementation and adaptation of data-centric teaching resources by closing gaps in the Open Education Resource (OER) lifecycle
    Presentation on data-centric open educational resources given at the 2019 UBER-GRC

    Keywords: DIGdata-centric teaching

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    Wind and Ocean Ecosystems (Project EDDIE)
    This module introduces students to the concepts of Ekman transport, eastern boundary currents, and upwelling, while learning how to find a location on a map using latitude and longitude, how to...
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    Evaluating the Quick Fix: Weight Loss Drugs and Cellular Respiration
    One key to student success in introductory and cell biology courses is a foundational knowledge of cellular respiration. This is a content area in which students often harbor misconceptions that...

    Keywords: data analysisCellular RespirationElectron Transport ChainEnergy transformationsMitochondriaOxidative phosphorylationWeight loss drugs24-dinitrophenol (DNP)

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    Thinking deeply about quantitative analysis: Building a Biologist's Toolkit
    Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education encouraged faculty to focus on core concepts and competencies in undergraduate curriculum. We created a sophomore-level course, Biologists'...

    Keywords: Vision and ChangeRRStudioquantitative literacystatistical analysisScientific communication

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    Teaching students to read, interpret, and write about scientific research: A press release assignment in a large, lower-division class
    A central skill in any science discipline is the ability to read, understand, and discuss the primary literature of the discipline. However, teaching this skill presents unique challenges within...

    Keywords: cell biologyScience Communicationscientific literacyGraduate Teaching Assistant Professional DevelopmentBiological LiteracyPrimary ResearchWriting Skills

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    Undergraduates Learn Evolution Through Teaching Kindergartners About Blind Mexican Cavefish
    The development and implementation of a scientific outreach activity comes with a number of challenges. A successful outreach event must match the sophistication of content to the audience, be...

    Keywords: Evolutionecologymorphologysensory biologycave biologycomparative biologyenvironmental differencesregressive lossstructure and function

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    The Mathematics of Voting Systems: Plurality, Runoff and Ranked Choice
    In this five-day interdisciplinary math and social studies unit, students use math to create informed opinions about the three most common voting systems in the United States: plurality, runoff and...

    Keywords: mathematicsInterdisciplinary STEMInterdisciplinary Mathematics Educationinterdisciplinary math educationvoting

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    Stream Discharge Module- Beck Modification (Project EDDIE)
    In this module, students use data from the United States Geologic Survey to assess changes in stream discharge with time, calculate flood frequency, and see the effects of urbanization and flood...

    Keywords: floodsProject EDDIEurbanizationstreams

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    Exploring Interdisciplinary Professional Development Opportunities through the Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges QB@CC Project
    The Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges (QB@CC) project provides a platform for open education resource (OER) development. Biology and mathematics faculty collaborate, create, and publish...

    Keywords: mathematicsprofessional developmentbiologycommunity collegesinterdisciplinaryOERcollaborationopen educational resourceqbcc

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    Defining Life: Exploring Creativity, Scientific Discovery, and Biology Core Concepts in a Disciplinary First-Year Seminar
    This unit, Defining Life, engages students in thinking like scientists, applying creativity to science, and learning biology core concepts as they explore the defining characteristics of life. This...

    Keywords: Evolutionbiologycellprocess of science

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    Lateral Transfer Maps as a Metacognitive Tool in First Year STEM Courses
    We introduce the Lateral Transfer Map (LTM), a tool for students to actively and visually explore the transfer of ideas, skills, and concepts across concurrent coursework. The LTM is an extension...

    Keywords: concept mapmetacognitionfirst-year studenttransfer

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    Structuring Courses for Equity
    As instructors, we continually look for new ways to create equitable learning environments and support learning for all students in our courses. Recently, we have explored ways that we can increase...

    Keywords: Equitymetacognitioninclusivitycourse structure

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    Community Conversation: What can BIOME do for your project?
    Follow the link to the webinar video, "What can BIOME do for your project?". In this conversation, an overview of the Summer 2022 BIOME Institute will be given with four special guests who...
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    Chapter 9: One-way analysis of variance
    Biostatistics Using R: A Laboratory Manual was created with the goals of providing biological content to lab sessions by using authentic research data and introducing R programming language....

    Keywords: biostatisticsR programming language

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    Chapter 2: Data sampling, accuracy, and precision
    Biostatistics Using R: A Laboratory Manual was created with the goals of providing biological content to lab sessions by using authentic research data and introducing R programming language....

    Keywords: biostatisticsR programming language

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