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Innovative Teaching Exchange: Asking Questions in Probability Class
25 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Queena N. Lee-Chua
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/898This is an article in MAA's Innovative Teaching Exchange that describes strategies to get students past thoughtless number crunching, guessing, and intuition when it comes...
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Introductory Science and Mathematics Education for 21st-Century Biologists
24 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): William Bialek, David Botstein
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/830Article abstract: "Galileo wrote that “the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics”; his quantitative approach to understanding the...
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Mathematics for the Life Sciences
24 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Erin N. Bodine, Suzanne Lenhart, Lou Gross
From source site: "This website is designed to provide a variety of information about the text Mathematics for the Life Sciences. It provides some material that supplements the presentations in the text, and will be the primary method used by the authors to pass on new material related...
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Mathematics for the Life Sciences
24 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Erin N. Bodine, Suzanne Lenhart, Lou Gross
From source site: "This website is designed to provide a variety of information about the text Mathematics for the Life Sciences. It provides some material that supplements the presentations in the text, and will be the primary method used by the authors to pass on new material related...
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Natural History Collections as Emerging Resources for Innovative Education
24 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material
This resource has been updated - find the current version here:https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/854Article abstract:"There is an emerging consensus that undergraduate biology education in the United States is at a crucial juncture, especially...
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Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based Social Design
24 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Robert E. Kraut, Paul Resnick
"What does social science tell us about how to make thriving online communities? Quite a lot, it turns out - but only if we listen very closely and, at times, employ a translator." - Kraut and Resnick 2012
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Towards better modelling and decision support: Documenting model development, testing, and analysis using TRACE
20 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Jacqueline Augusiak, Andreas Focks, Béatrice M. Frank, Faten Gabsi, Alice S.A. Johnston, Chun Liu, Benjamin T. Martin, Mattia Meli, Viktoriia Radchuk, Pernille Thorbek, Steven F Railsback, Volker Grimm
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/829Highlights• We introduce TRACE, a framework for documenting model testing and analysis.• TRACE is based on the recently proposed framework...
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POPULUS Lotka - Volterra, the logistic equation & Isle Royale
13 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Stephen Malcolm
Laboratory exercise explores predator-prey dynamics using Populus.
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POPULUS Lotka - Volterra, the logistic equation & Isle Royale
13 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Stephen Malcolm
Laboratory exercise explores predator-prey dynamics using Populus.
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POPULUS Simulations of interspecific competition using the Lotka-Volterra model
13 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Scott Creel
Explores the Lotka-Volterra model of interspecific competition using Populus.
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POPULUS Simulations of interspecific competition using the Lotka-Volterra model
13 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Scott Creel
Explores the Lotka-Volterra model of interspecific competition using Populus.
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Statistics for biologists
12 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/897There is no disputing the importance of statistical analysis in biological research, but too often it is considered only after an experiment is completed, when it may be too...
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RStudio IDE for R
22 Jan 2015 | Software (On-site)
RStudio is a GUI for R, the statistical programming language.
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Quantitative Modules to accompany general biology courses
06 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Lou Gross, Susan Harrell Yee, Monica Beals
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/828This collection of about 50 modules were developed to accompany general biology courses and allow instructors to add some quantitative examples in many of the topics in a...
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Quantitative Modules to accompany general biology courses
06 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Lou Gross, Susan Harrell Yee, Monica Beals
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/828This collection of about 50 modules were developed to accompany general biology courses and allow instructors to add some quantitative examples in many of the topics in a...
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Tools: New tools for new science
06 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/891A collection of computational, modeling and data analysis tools developed at Microsoft Research Labs.
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How the Scientific Method Works
06 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Charles (Chuck) Bryant, Josh Clark
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/827It evolved over centuries to become the gold standard for conducting scientific inquiry. Yet many people - including some scientists – don’t fully understand...
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Quantitative Reasoning Learning Progression
06 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Robert Mayes
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/353The NSF Pathways Project focused on developing learning progressions for environmental sceince on the 6-12 grade levels. Pathways explored how students on middle to high school grade bands...
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Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Tumors?
06 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/890https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU5XkhUGzBs
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Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Tumors?
06 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/890https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU5XkhUGzBs