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    Backward Design with Digital Data
    Best practices for designing educational modules using biodiversity data
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    List of resources and support communities dedicated to biology undergraduate education
    Ecologists new to teaching and evidence-based teaching practices often feel alone and without support. There are resources and communities that can help them become better instructors and...

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    Learning Frameworks Aid Goal-oriented Course Design
    As a new instructor it can be hard to know where to begin. Thankfully, CourseSource's learning frameworks (https://www.coursesource.org/courses) shaped my approach to teaching as a first year...
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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...
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    The Lecture-Free Classroom: Teaching students backward design and Bloom's Taxonomy to create their own learning environment
    We describe Presentation Enhanced Learning (PEL), a flexible, lecture-free, field-tested teaching format to promote problem-based, active learning in upper-division or graduate biological sciences...
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    BioMolViz - Development of an Inclusive Community for the Instruction of Visualizing Biomolecules (RCN-Introduction)
    BioMolViz is a community dedicated to advancing biomolecular visualization education. We provide training, teaching tools and validated visual literacy assessments. The BioMolViz Library—our online...
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    Using Synthetic Biology and pClone Red for Authentic Research on Promoter Function: Introductory Biology (identifying new promoters)
    Students often memorize the definition of a transcriptional promoter but fail to fully understand the critical role promoters play in gene expression. This laboratory lesson allows students to...
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    Using Synthetic Biology and pClone Red for Authentic Research on Promoter Function: Genetics (analyzing mutant promoters)
    Students often memorize the definition of a transcriptional promoter but fail to fully understand the critical role promoters play in gene expression.  This laboratory lesson allows students...
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    The Revolution Will be Backward Designed - YouTube
    This informal talk was presented by Dr. Bryan Dewsbury to the "Networking STEM Initiatives to Enhance Adoption of Evidence-based Practices (NSITE)" community in March of 2022.
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    Universal Design for Learning - Faculty Mentoring Network Introduction
    Overview of Universal Design for Learning, presented to a faculty mentoring network during a virtual meeting
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    A CRISPR/Cas Guide RNA Design In Silico Activity
    CRISPR biotechnologies inspired by the Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat RNA-guided nuclease adaptive bacterial immune system have revolutionized biology research and become...
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    Getting Started with Universal Design for Learning
    Three resources for faculty interested in an introduction to Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
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    Introduction to the Universal Design for Learning Guidelines
    Two activities for introducing Universal Design for Learning to a faculty audience
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    Central Dogma, Dictionaries, and Functions: Using Programming Concepts to Simulate Biological Processes
    Technologies like next-generation sequencing, proteomics, and high-throughput phenotyping have transformed the way we do biology. There is a continued need for scientists with computational skills...
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    Building student literacy and metacognition through reading science in the news
    Ensuring students' science literacy is essential for preparation for study in science disciplines and is of critical importance given contemporary challenges in determining the legitimacy and...
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    Training future faculty in 30 minutes a week: A modular framework to provide just-in-time professional development to graduate teaching assistants
    Despite increasing recognition of the need to train the teaching assistants (TAs) teaching the majority of STEM lab sections, very few programs report offering sustained teaching professional...
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    Applying UDL to Existing Materials
    This activity supports instructors in revising materials to incorporate Universal Design for Learning checkpoints.
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    UDL of the Day: Introducing Faculty to Universal Design for Learning through Case Activities
    Presentation by BioQUEST on providing Universal Design for Learning professional development, given at the Octboer 2019 UDL-HE Digicon
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    How to Design a Classroom Activity that Integrates 3D Print Models with Active Learning
    Student exploration of relevant physical models can deepen knowledge of course material. In this guide we describe a method by which instructors can integrate 3D printing technology with an...
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    Beyond Average: Designing for Variability with Universal Design for Learning
    Presentation on Universal Design for Learning at the 2022 SIMIODE EXPO

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