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    2006-Salem-Abudiab-Labview-An Interactive Teaching Tool for a Differential Equations Class
    It is evident that computer based learning has become an essential part of education systems. It provides animation and interactive processes that are not possible with textbooks.

    Keywords: javavisualizationvirtual labpendulumLabviecomputer assisted instructionharmonic motion

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    Insects of Alberta - Interactive Identification Guide To Common Orders
    An interactive guide to insect orders found in Alberta based on and modified from the Entomological Society of Alberta’s “The Insect Collector’s Guide.” This guide was created for undergraduate...

    Keywords: BiodiversityentomologyinsectsBLUEpollinatorsinsectidentificationAlberta

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    Interactive, online modules to enhance quantitative skills in biology students
    Session presentation on the need for enhancing quantitative proficiency through a series of interactive, web‐based modules at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: modulesquantitative skillsMathBenchSummer Workshop 2018

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    Snapshot Serengeti Faculty Mentoring Network, Summer 2022
    The goal of our summer 2022 FMN was to develop a client-side interactive dashboard that allowed students to visualize and analyze data from the Snapshot Serengeti camera-trap research project.

    Keywords: Faculty Mentoring NetworkinteractiveSerengeti

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    Teaching R with Swirl
    Session presentation on using Swirl, an interactive platform for learning and teaching R in the R console

    Keywords: Rdata analysisprogrammingSummer Workshop 2018Swirl

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    2015-Cano-EtAl-Bringing partial differential equations to life for students
    This work describes how to use an authoring tool, Easy Java Simulations, to build interactive simulations using FreeFem++ (Hecht F 2012 J. Numer. Math. 20 251) as a PDE solver engine.

    Keywords: Java SimulationFreeFemauthoring toolsauthoring methodsphysical modellingclassroom teaching

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    BIOME 2022 Daily Spark: Accessibility
    Presentation on designing accessible STEM learning communities at the 2022 BIOME Institute.

    Keywords: BIOME 2022

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    Getting students to reason with data: QUBES tools and teaching resources built for introductory biology
    Workshop presented at the 2019 Biology Learning Community Conference

    Keywords: QUBESdataintroductory biologydata in the classroomQuantitative reasoning

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    2005-Saifullah-Mathematical Modeling With Differential Equations
    This article aims to provide the students some basic modeling skills, which will have applications to a wide variety of problems.

    Keywords: species interactionsword equationinteractive software

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    Creating Game-Based IDEAs using Twine (BIOME 2022)
    Games and gamification-principles are powerful tools that increase engagement and improve learning outcomes when applied appropriately to STEM instruction. The interactive nature of games allows...
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    Connecting Viral Pandemics to Ecological Population Growth Models
    In this activity students use the HHMI Population Growth Models interactive to explore R0 for diseases and discuss the importance of connecting population ecology to current events like the...
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    CyVerse: Scalable Image Informatics
    Poster on cyberinfrastructure for the machine learning ere presented at the 2020 BIOME Institute: Cultivating Scientific Curiosity

    Keywords: image analysisundergraduate researchmachine learningCyVerse

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    Predator-Prey Interactions: Selective foraging by wolf spiders
    This interactive case study is intended for use in lower-division biology or ecology courses to complement the SimUText (SimBio) chapter entitled Predation, Herbivory and Parasitism.
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    Investigating Determinants of Richness in Ephemeral and Permanent Wetlands Using Linear Models in Shiny
    This resource seeks to provide a quantitative platform by which students can be taught about interactive effects using the TIEE module created by Little (2018). Key to the adaptation is the use of...

    Keywords: aquatic macroinvertebrateslinear regressionhypothesis testingshinywetlands

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    COVID-19 Spread NetLogo ABM
    This project aimed to utilize agent-based modeling in NetLogo to create a simulation of COVID-19 spread in a traditional college classroom. The model allows for an evaluation of different...

    Keywords: classroomNetLogoagent-based modelingdisease prevention

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    An Introduction to the R Programming Environment
    An online module introducing students and biologists to R, published in American Phytopathological Society

    Keywords: epidemiologyRecologyR programming languagebioinformaticsprogrammingplant biologyNIBLSEplant pathology

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    Creating Phylogenetic Trees from DNA Sequences
    This interactive module shows how DNA sequences can be used to infer evolutionary relationships among organisms and represent them as phylogenetic trees.

    Keywords: EvolutionHHMI BioInteractivephylogenetic tree

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    Sex Verification Testing of Athletes
    This interactive module explores the biology of sex determination and development in humans, set against the backdrop of the different sex testing policies implemented throughout sports history.

    Keywords: Resources @ HHMI - BioInteractiveDevelopmental BiologyAnatomy & PhysiologyScience & SocietySex hormoneshuman reproductive development

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    CyVerse Tutorials for NEON Data Science Institute 2018
    Resource for conducting data intensive research on CyVerse
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    The insect predation game: evolving prey defenses and predator responses
    This is an FMN participant modification of the TIEE module "The Insect Predation Game: Evolving Prey Defenses and Predator Responses," authored by W. Wyatt Hoback and Tamara L. Smith in...

    Keywords: ecologyIntroductoryLabEcological Society of AmericafmnUndergraduateData DiscoveryInstructional SettingAudience LevelActivity LengthMore than 1 hour

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