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The Impact of Diversity on Group Productivity Within Online Faculty Mentoring Networks (FMNs) of Educators
25 May 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Sam S Donovan, Alison N Hale, Loretta Wanda Liu, Katie Grobengieser
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/212With the fast growing pace of online technology for teaching and obtaining information, increasingly, many educators are turning their browsers on to immerse both themselves and their...
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Quantitative biology: how educators that "buy-in" demonstrate greater productivity in teaching scholarship
25 May 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Sam S Donovan, Alison N Hale, Leah Balsan, Connor McLaughlin
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/213How does one teach effectively? Teachers and school administrators have been asking this question for generations. However, in the biological sciences, this question has been complicated by...
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QUBES: Supporting faculty in the teaching of mathematical biology
21 Oct 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Carrie Diaz Eaton, Sam S Donovan, Tom Gower, Kristin Jenkins, Drew LaMar, DorothyBelle Poli, Bob Sheehy, Jeremy M Wojdak
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/218Faculty are working hard to meet the career needs of students in mathematical biology at institutions across the country and the world. This may be by creating mathematical biology courses or...
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Two themes, one talk: Distributing quantitative faculty expertise to classrooms that need it in real-time & measuring professional contributions to undergraduate education
25 Jul 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Jeremy M Wojdak, Sam S Donovan, Tom Gower, Kristin Jenkins
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/230Have you ever wanted to add a quantitative project to your course, but lacked the expertise with some aspect of the software, computation, modeling, or statistics? Have you ever wished...
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Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based Social Design
24 Feb 2015 | | 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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POPULUS Evolutionary forces
03 Feb 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Jonathan M. Brown
This lab is focused on understanding how evolutionary forces - including mutation, genetic drift, migration, and selection - result in changes in population allele frequencies.
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Population Growth
30 Jan 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Miles Silman
Lab exercise in which students model both discrete and continuous density-independent growth. Students also model discrete and time-lagged density-dependent growth. General questions are provided at the end.
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Lotka-Volterra, the logistic equation, and Isle Royale
30 Jan 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Stephen Malcolm
Students work through the basic Lotka-Volterra predator prey model using an example in which the prey exhibit density independence. Students then incorporate density dependence of prey items using several different features of Populus.
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POPULUS Genetic Drift Computer Simulation
30 Jan 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Joanna Vondrasek, Janis Antonovics, Doug Taylor
A stand-alone lab exercise developed for the Evolution course at the University of Virginia. Explores the effects of population size and initial allele frequency on the loss/fixation of alleles.