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

    Keywords: building communitygreen chemistryPeer reviewdigital libraryOpen Educational Resources (OER)

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    Use of PeerWise - an open digital question authoring tool
    Session on PeerWise presented at BioQUEST Workshop 2018

    Keywords: Summer Workshop 2018

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    Sustainability and Justice: Challenges and Opportunities for an Open STEM Education
    Combining understanding of OER sustainability and equity and justice to carve out ideas for the future of STEM open education.

    Keywords: sustainabilityOERsocial justicenonprofitdigital library

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    What’s the DEAL – The Digital Encyclopedia of Ancient Life and Digital Atlas Apps
    The Digital Encyclopedia of Ancient Life and Digital Atlas Apps -- identify fossils and explore diversity and history of life on earth.

    Keywords: phylogeneticsdigital resourcesfossilspaleontologyevolutionary biologytaxonomyeduappsnatural history collections3D modelsgeologyopen textbookdigitized natural history collectionsencyclopediaatlasCretaceous World TCNPaleo Niches TCNvirtual teaching collectionFossil field guide

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    Science and Society: Integrating Historical Science Materials Into an Undergraduate Biology Course
    Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2011) stresses the importance of fostering an understanding of the relationship between...

    Keywords: infectious diseasevaccinationbacteriavirusesantibiotics

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    Webinar: Getting Started with QUBES Educational Library Resources - YouTube
    Follow the link to the webinar video, "Getting Started with QUBES Educational Library Resources". This webinar is intended to help individuals find and use STEM education resources available on the...

    Keywords: webinar

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    Backward Design with Digital Data
    Best practices for designing educational modules using biodiversity data

    Keywords: data in the classroombackward designbiodiversity collections

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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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    Digital Atlas of Ancient Life | Exploring the Diversity and History of Fossil Life
    The Digital Atlas project include field guides to fossils (including a mobile app), an online paleontology textbook, and a collection of over 500 virtual 3D models of fossil specimens.

    Keywords: Evolutionbiologyidigbiopaleontologytaxonomynatural history collectionsgeologySPNHC2020

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    Community Conversation: Publishing Conference Materials on QUBES
    Follow the link to the webinar video, "Publishing Conference Materials on QUBES". In this video, an overview of QUBES will be given, followed by information on how conference participants and...
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    Discovery Poster Project
    Engaging in undergraduate research can be exciting yet intimidating to first-year students at large research universities. For first-generation college students, whose pre-college exposure to...

    Keywords: researchprimary literaturePostercore concepts

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    Avida-ED Experimental Evolution Project
    Outline to a research project based on Avida-ED's digital organisms
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    Avida-ED
    Avida-ED is an award-winning educational application developed at Michigan State University for undergraduate biology courses to help students learn about evolution and scientific method.

    Keywords: simulationEvolutionbiologyscientific methodResources @ QUBES - Softwaredigitalhypotheses

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    Using Natural History Collection Data in Your CURE: BLUE BIOME 2020
    This is the report for the BLUE working group from the Biome Institute 2020. It reflects our group's efforts and products related to CUREs and Natural History Collection Digital Data.

    Keywords: digitized natural history collectionsBIOME 2020Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education

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    An Original-Design Board Game to Increase Student Comprehension of Cellular Respiration Pathways
    Cellular respiration is a daunting topic for many students in introductory biology courses. Students are challenged at conceptual and factual levels, since instruction covers multiple metabolic...

    Keywords: GlycolysisCellular RespirationFermentationKrebs CycleOxidative phosphorylationpyruvate oxidation

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    An Open Source, Collaborative Electronic Notebook for Undergraduate Laboratory Classes
    To overcome many of the limitations of the paper laboratory notebook (PLN), we developed an electronic laboratory notebook (e-LN) for the Dynamic Genome course at the University of California. The...

    Keywords: data collectionData annotationNotebook Skills

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    Identifiers in Digital Natural History Collections
    This is a collection of resources focusing on GUIDs (Globally Unique Identifiers) on what they are, what role they play in digital natural history collections, and how to incorporate them in...

    Keywords: idigbioStudy guidedata managementnatural history collectionsBLUEdigitized natural history collectionsidentifiers

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    Communicating with Data: Infographic with Digital Data
    Working collaboratively in teams of 2-4 researchers, students engage in targeted projects to address critical information and research needs using digital biodiversity data.

    Keywords: databasesdata in the classroomundergraduate researchdigital collectionscourse-based research experiences (CUREs)biodiversity collections

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    Spatial Justice, Marginal Populations, and Data Integrity
    Spatial justice refers to the consequential geography of a place where spaces are socially produced. Understanding how spatial injustice is created at different spatial scales is an essential part...

    Keywords: data sciencespatial justicedata integrity

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    Staying Alive: Extinction Risk: Introduction to Extinction and Extinction Bias
    Data driven curriculum module from Dryad Digital Repository

    Keywords: ecologydata analysisconservationgraphingResources @ Dryadextinctionmacroevolution

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