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    RIOS Working Group - Debunking the Myth that Race is Biological
    This RIOS Working Group grant funding compensated Raritan Valley Community College (RVCC) students for creating curricular materials that could be used to debunk the myth that race is biological....

    Keywords: geneticsbiology teachingraceOpen Pedagogyantiracismrios fundedRIOS Working Group

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    Survey Findings - RIOS Outcome Survey Fall 2022
    Summary of survey findings to understand members of the RIOS Institute's experience with RIOS since the project’s inception.

    Keywords: evaluation

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    SCORE - Network for an Open and Accessible Biology Education: The promise of equity and the challenge of sustainability (RCU-UBE Introduction)
    The mission of the SCORE-UBE Network is to help our Network participants achieve their sustainability and broader impact goals by working together to amplify the value and reach of open education...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    The RIOS Institute Strategic Plan
    The Institute for a Racially Just, Inclusive, and Open STEM Education (RIOS Institute) is a virtual synthesis center led by a diverse set of individuals at the interface of open education, STEM...
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    For a Racially-Just, Inclusive, Open, STEM education: The RIOS Institute imagines an Open Education as the radical idea that education should be affordable, accessible, equitable, inclusive, and relevant to everyone
    As we engage in Open STEM Education, “Open for Whom?” becomes an increasingly urgent question. Why should we invest in an education that is free, if it does not attend to the inclusion of...

    Keywords: social justiceriosNABT 2022

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    Evaluation of DEIJ practices in learning spaces
    Our Accelerating Systemic Change Network (ASCN) Working Group 5 is a group which focuses on DEIJ - Diversity, Equity, Inclusive and Justice. Taking into account the evolution of learning...

    Keywords: stemassessmentUndergraduatescienceFacultyriosDEIJASCNlearning space

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    Survey Findings: Exploring Open Education LC
    Survey findings for the learning community (LC), Exploring Open Education Practices and Pedagogy (Spring 2022), facilitated by Drs. Carlos Goller (North Carolina State University) and Melanie...

    Keywords: evaluation

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    Survey Findings: Exploring Open Education Fall 2022 LC
    Survey findings for the learning community (LC), Exploring Open Education Practices and Pedagogy (Spring 2022), facilitated by Drs. Carlos Goller (North Carolina State University) and Melanie...

    Keywords: evaluation

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    Survey Findings:: Social Justice Dialogues in STEM Education LC
    Survey findings for the learning community (LC), Social Justice Dialogues in STEM Ed, facilitated by Drs. Bryan Dewsbury (Florida Institute of Technology) and Desiree Forsythe (Rochester Institute...

    Keywords: evaluation

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    Survey Findings:: Social Justice Dialogues in STEM Education Fall 2022 LC
    Survey findings for the learning community (LC), Social Justice Dialogues in STEM Ed, facilitated by Drs. Desiree Forsythe (Chapman University) and Megan Jones (University of Rhode Island) – with...

    Keywords: evaluation

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    SCORE-UBE Final Evaluation Report
    Final evaluation report for the NSF funded RCN-SCORE Network which aimed to support members tackle shared issues in sustaining OER and OEP. The growth of the network continued to grow through...

    Keywords: STEM Evaluation

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    Do urban yards serve as a refuge for native land snail species?
    This module contains a series of take-home activities to prepare students to analyze their own dataset collected in lab.

    Keywords: urban ecosystemsrefugia from habitat lossJMP

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    Literature Review: Inclusive Calculus for Life Sciences
    We believe that a biology-relevant calculus experience (biocalculus) can help overcome many of these issues in calculus. While challenging to build the capacity for teaching courses, students in...

    Keywords: calculusbiocalculusidentityInclusive teachingcalculus epistemology

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    SWP Biology Writing Resource Guide
    This Guide was created by the STEM Writing Project at Wake Forest University. We are STEM teachers and education researchers who want to make scientific writing a bigger part of students' training....

    Keywords: teaching scientific writing

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    Digging up history with a ‘real-life Indiana Jones’ Dr. Sarah Barber
    In this exciting talk, Dr. Sarah "Stacy" Barber discusses her exciting research covering: 1. Documentation of geological, hydrodynamic, and ecological change in the Indian River Lagoon, and 2....

    Keywords: human impactsarchaeology

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    Genome Solver: Building faculty skills in bioinformatics
    Genome Solver (GS) began in 2011 as an NSF-funded project for faculty training in basic web-based bioinformatics skills.

    Keywords: faculty developmentbioinformaticsgenome solver

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    QUBES: a community focused on supporting teaching and learning in quantitative biology
    This letter provides an overview of the Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) Project funded through the National Science Foundation.

    Keywords: mathematicseducationQUBESprofessional developmentbiologycollaborationproceedings

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    Evaluation of DEIJ in Lectures of Junior Year Science Undergraduate Course
    Diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice, DEIJ, is important for both students and faculty as they improve learning outcomes and elicit professional competency respectively. DEIJ...

    Keywords: stempedagogyArticleUndergraduateOpen Sourcescienceevaluationneurobiologythe role of active learning in retention and engagementFacultyAnalysismethod#DEI-J-ADEIJinterdisplinaryjunorlearning spacesadditional support learning systemenhancement

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    GBIF Tutorial - BLUE Resource
    A user guide and video instructions for GBIF

    Keywords: Querying databasesdatabasedata in the classroombiodiversity informaticsbiodiversity collections

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    iDigBio Tutorial - BLUE Resource
    A user guide and video instructions for iDigBio

    Keywords: databasesQuerying databasesdata in the classroombiodiversity informaticsbiodiversity collections

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