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    Distributed creation, community guidance, and OER development: current models and emerging practices
    Presented at the BioQUEST 2016 Summer Workshop

    Keywords: OERcollaborative writing

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    Robot vs. Disease: Using CellProfiler to model biomedical research in your classroom
    Resource from the 2015 BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: image analysisCellProfilerfluorescence microscopymicroscopycellular analysis

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    A Growing Concern: Sustaining Soil Resources through Local Decision Making
    This module addresses this need by providing students the opportunity to examine the differences between intensively managed agricultural landscapes (e.g. grazelands, conventional tillage) and...

    Keywords: sustainabilityenvironmental sciencegeologysoil scienceResources @ InTeGrate

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    A New Hub for QUBES based on the HUBzero Platform
    Presentation on QUBES and Hubzero given at the Seventh International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology: Education and Research 2014, Claremont, CA

    Keywords: QUBESHubZeroCMS

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    2015 Quantitative Biology Education Summit
    Abstract for a meeting, 2015 Quantitative Biology Education Summit.

    Keywords: meetingQUBESRCNquantitative biologyData In Inquiryworkshop

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    Understanding the Quantitative and Computational Skills of Incoming Biology Students
    Presentation given as part of a Minisymposium at BEER 2015.

    Keywords: assessmentBioSQuaRE

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    QUBES: Building a community to promote undergraduate quantitative biology education
    This was a poster session at the 2015 Ecological Society of America meeting in Baltimore, MD.

    Keywords: Ecological Society of America

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    Quantitative Evolutionary Biology on the QUBESHub
    Abstract for a presentation about QUBES given at the Evolution 2015 Conference Education Strand.

    Keywords: Evolution

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    QUBES News, Highlights, and the Grand Opening of QUBESHub.org
    Abstract for a panel discussion about QUBES. Part of a minisymposium at BEER 2015.
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    Quantitative biology: how educators that "buy-in" demonstrate greater productivity in teaching scholarship
    Poster presented at the University of Pittsburgh undergraduate research symposium on the impact of buy-in on productivity in faculty mentoring networks.

    Keywords: faculty mentoring networks

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    The Impact of Diversity on Group Productivity Within Online Faculty Mentoring Networks (FMNs) of Educators
    Poster presented at the University of Pittsburgh undergraduate research symposium on the impact of diversity on productivity in faculty mentoring networks.

    Keywords: faculty mentoring networksundergraduate researchdiversity

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    Reimagining professional development: Faculty mentoring networks as a model for connecting projects and teachers
    iDigBio webinar providing background on the QUBES project, examples of how faculty mentoring networks have made it possible for diverse educational programs to reach new audiences, and a framework...

    Keywords: webinar

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    One species, two species, red species, lead species? Phylogenetics and species concepts with Plethodon salamanders
    This lab introduces students to species concepts and basic computer-based tree-building methods using published nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data for Plethodon salamanders.

    Keywords: phylogenetic analysisTree thinkingsalamanderAudience level - Advanced UG

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    How Many Salamanders are in the forest? Testing capture-recapture
    Collecting data on how populations respond to environmental change requires accurate estimates of population sizes. This activity explores one method for estimating population sizes across three...

    Keywords: salamanderCapture mark-recaptureAudience level - Introductory UG - majorsAudience level - Introductory UG - non-majors

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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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    Designing undergraduate biology curricula to teach skills and knowledge for data-intensive environmental research
    Poster presented at Ecological Society of America Annual Conference 2017.

    Keywords: data literacy

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    Professional development in quantitative biology and its relationship to promoting scholarly teaching
    Poster presented at Ecological Society of America Annual Conference 2017.

    Keywords: Faculty Mentoring Network

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    Undergraduate data science: Biological connections and assessing impacts
    Presentation made by Lou Gross et al. as part of the "Bringing Research Data to the Ecology Classroom: Opportunities, Barriers, and Next Steps” Session at the Ecological Society of America...

    Keywords: Ecological Society of America

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    Natural history collections data and Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education (BLUE)
    Presentation made by Elizabeth Ellwood et al. as part of the "Bringing Research Data to the Ecology Classroom: Opportunities, Barriers, and Next Steps” Session at the Ecological Society of...

    Keywords: Ecological Society of America

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    Exploring global environmental change issues: Using an online spatial data sharing platform in the classroom
    Presentation made by Kai Foster as part of the "Bringing Research Data to the Ecology Classroom: Opportunities, Barriers, and Next Steps” Session at the Ecological Society of America annual...

    Keywords: Ecological Society of America

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