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    Collections Education Coffee Break Series Episode One: What Can We Learn From an Insect Specimen Label?
    In the first episode of the Collections Education Coffee Break Series we speak with Anne Basham from SCAN and the Biodiversity Outreach Network. ...

    Keywords: natural history collectionsinformal science learninginformal educationMulti-Modal learningmultiliteracyspecimen baseddigitizationdigital specimen

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    Fungus Among Us!
    This game introduces the idea of how fungi and plants can work together in a symbiotic relationship.

    Keywords: NIMBiosgraphingplantsfamily timeinformal science learningfungiinformal science educationsimple data plots

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    SENCERizing your CURE
    Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) is the signature initiative of the National Center for Science & Civic Engagement.

    Keywords: CURECUREscourse-based research experiences (CUREs)SENCER

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    Join the Natural History Education Community!
    Biome 2022 poster on how to get involved in the natural history education community.

    Keywords: OERnatural history collectionsBIOME 2022SPNHC

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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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    Collections Education Coffee Break Series: Anne Basham from LepNet and SCAN on Vimeo
    Anne Basham (Founder ExplorMor Labs LLC/Co-Founder Bon-Earth, LeptNet and SCAN) Presenting on Natural history collections that connect marginalized elders with memory and the natural world. ...

    Keywords: idigbionatural history museumsnatural history collectionlife-long learnersinformal learningvulnerable learnersobject-based learninggeragogyU3A

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    Adapting BioQUEST and QUBES Resources to Accelerate STEM Education Reform
    This informal presentation will provide an overview of the resources available from the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium and the QUBES platform to support individuals and projects. These resources...
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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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    Mentoring Pacific Island Students for Conservation
    This undergraduate internship program focuses on mentoring Pacific Island Students into conservation careers through development of skills, networks and sense of self, while being grounded in...

    Keywords: internshipconservation ecologyplace based learningSelf-Efficacycultural contextExperiential Education

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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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    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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    3d Naturalists - Bioblitzes, Citizen Science, and Undergraduate Learning (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    Citizen science and the associated new technological ability to crowdsource data may be the gateway for engaging the public in the science needed for the management, protection, and stewardship of...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    Politeness Data
    The dataset recorded properties of formal and informal speech registers in Korean.

    Keywords: linguistics

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    MathBench: Evolved Immunity for Introductory Environmental Science
    The Evolved Immunity module was the focal module for this lesson. Evolved Immunity was chosen because this module includes content and quantitative elements from a range of lab and lecture topics...
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    2008-Abramson-Mathematical modeling of the spread of infectious diseases
    These are informal notes, mostly based on the bibliography listed at the end and on recent papers in the field. The practical use of these models is based on the fact that they can be kept...

    Keywords: infectious diseasebibliographyepidemiccowpoxsmallpoxcomplex networksspread disease

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    2008-Abramson-Mathematical modeling of the spread of infectious diseases
    These are informal notes, mostly based on the bibliography listed at the end and on recent papers in the field. The practical use of these models is based on the fact that they can be kept...

    Keywords: infectious diseaseepidemiccowpoxsmallpoxcomplex networks

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    Gratitude Interventions in a Biology Course to Foster Student Persistence and Success
    College students are experiencing a mental health crisis, which has been further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is problematic because stress and anxiety impede learning. One way to...

    Keywords: mental healthgratitudepositive psychologydegree commitment

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    A CURE-based approach to teaching genomics using mitochondrial genomes
    There is an abundance (currently over 1016 DNA bases) of publicly available genetic sequence data and a dearth of trained genomicists to process and interpret it, necessitating more trained...

    Keywords: proteinsMitochondrial GenomesNuclear GenomesrRNAtRNA

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    Java array and random number generator, hints
    Java, UTC, Fall 2017

    Keywords: videosjavabioinformaticsgenomicsyoutuberandom number generator

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    Java String array demo, switch two elements in an array
    CPSC1100, UTC Fall 2017

    Keywords: videosjavabioinformaticsgenomicsyoutubeJava String

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