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1. BioQUEST Webinar: CourseSource - YouTube

   01 Feb 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Sam S Donovan

   University of Pittsburgh

   Follow the link to the webinar video, "An Introduction to the CourseSource Journal and Making Your Own Collections". This webinar provides an overview of CourseSource, how to publish your teaching...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2857/?v=1

2. Webinar: How BioQUEST and QUBES Can Support Your Project

   21 Dec 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Sam S Donovan

   University of Pittsburgh

   Follow the link to the webinar video, "How BioQUEST and QUBES Can Support Your Project". This webinar provides an overview of how QUBES is organized and examples of different ways that groups can...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2832/?v=1

3. Scientists Offering Solutions through Sprints

   08 Dec 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Tonya Bates¹, Carlos Christopher Goller², Lynda Gonzales³, Jennifer Kovacs⁴, Anne C. Rea⁵, Crystal Schalmo⁶, Alice Tarun⁷

   1. UNC Charlotte 2. North Carolina State University 3. University of Texas at Austin 4. Spelman College 5. Maryville College 6. Green Dragon Conservation Education LLC 7. Alfred State College

   Our BIOME Fall Working Group, Scientists Offering Solutions through Sprints, explains the process of putting together a Science sprint in your community. A science sprint is a one-day event in...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2796/?v=1

4. Sharing Stories: Developing OER around Podcasts

   03 Dec 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By J. Phil Gibson¹, Carlos Christopher Goller², Stefanie Kring³, Darlene Panvini⁴, Justin Pruneski⁵, Ellen Wisner⁶

   1. University of Oklahoma 2. North Carolina State University 3. Clarkson University 4. Belmont University 5. Heidelberg University 6. University of North Carolina Charlotte

   Our team met in the fall of 2021 to discuss and develop resources around podcasts. We created lists of podcast episodes for several courses, learned about listening guides, shared assignment...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2797/?v=1

5. Microbiome Analysis with Oxford Nanopore 16S amplicon sequencing data

   30 Nov 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Alice Tarun¹, Mao-Lun Weng²

   1. St. Lawrence University 2. Westfield State University

   The resource is a brief description of an analysis pipeline for microbiome analysis of Oxford Nanopore 16S amplicon sequence data. We tested the Kraken 2 and Krona pipeline from nanogalaxy with...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2801/?v=1

6. Choosing healthy data for healthy relationships: how to use 5-point summaries, box and whisker plots, and correlation to understand global health trends.

   21 Jun 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Andrea Huntoon¹, John Doudna², Pallavi Bhale³, Thalita Abrahão⁴, Alys Hugo⁵, Jennifer Lyon Adler⁶

   1. Fox Valley Technical College 2. Lansing Community College 3. Montgomery College 4. Georgia State University Perimeter College 5. Everett Community College 6. Maysville Community and Technical College

   This module utilizes a user-friendly database exploring data selection, box-and-whisker plot, and correlation analysis. It also guides students on how to make a poster of their data and conclusions.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2427/?v=1

7. Science of Sorting

   22 Apr 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Julia Robinson¹, Margaret t Liechty², Ashley Kramer³

   1. Cecilia Berg Center for Environmental Education; Hefner Museum of Natural History; Miami University 2. Cecilia Berg Center for Environmental Education, Hefner Museum of Natural History,Miami University 3. Cecilia Berg Center of Environmental Education; Hefner Museum of Natural History; Miami University

   Children possess an innate curiosity about the natural world. This Discovery Trunk explores the topic of sorting, or classification, in the study of life science.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2320/?v=1

8. Designing an Anti-Racist Syllabus

   08 Mar 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By CSUEB Alliance for the Black Community Education¹, Ana Almeida¹, Kim Geron¹, Pascale S. Guiton¹, Nina Haft¹, Marlin Halim¹, Eve Higby¹, Michael Lee¹, ZáNean McClain¹

   California State University East Bay

   The Alliance for the Black Community (ABC) developed a workshop to help faculty at California State University East Bay redesign their syllabi to incorporate anti-racist pedagogical practices.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2284/?v=1

9. Thinking About Graduate School in Biology: Our Tips for Success

   25 Feb 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Catherine Early¹, Adania Flemming², Jeanette Pirlo³, Sorilis Ruiz-Escobar⁴

   1. Science Museum of Minnesota 2. iDigBio, FLMNH 3. University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History 4. University of Florida/ Florida Museum

   As part of the iDigTrio 2020 Biological Conference and Fair we created this document to supplement our workshop on "Applying for Graduate school". This is a compilation drawing from the four...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2273/?v=1

10. STEM OER Accessibility Framework and Guidebook

    25 Jan 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Cynthia Jimes¹, Amee Evans Godwin¹, Sean Fox², Anastasia Karaglani¹, Nick Lobaito¹

    1. ISKME 2. SERC

    This framework, developed by ISKME in partnership with SERC, provides a practical reference for curators and authors of STEM OER, with 23 accessibility criteria, or elements, to reference as they...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2235/?v=1

11. Anti-Racist Educator's Starting Guides

    10 Sep 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By CSUEB Alliance for the Black Community¹, Nicole Sumner¹, christina Chin-Newman¹, Nina Haft¹, Jessika Murphy¹, Shannon Coskran¹, Michael Lee¹, Ian Pollock¹, Nazzy Pakpour¹, Pascale Guiton¹

    California State University East Bay

    The Alliance for the Black Community (ABC) has worked diligently to create the attached anti-racist starting guides for our faculty and staff at CSUEB and on other higherEd campuses.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2098/?v=2

12. Nature’s Flying Machines: The Evolutionary Relationship of Avian Form & Function

    28 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Melissa Haswell

    Davenport University

    In this series of activities, birds will be used as the model organism. The modules examine the connections between body form and function over time by investigating the relationship between avian...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2085/?v=1

13. Atlas of Black Scholarship for Inclusive and Racially Diverse STEM Curricula – Volume I

    30 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Aparna Anandkumar¹, Ariel Moline², Pascale S. Guiton²

    1. Castro Valley High School & California State University East Bay 2. California State University East Bay

    The contributions of Black scientists to the advancement of STEM are poorly represented in course materials. Here, we provide an Atlas of Black Scholarship to help Life Sciences and Chemistry...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2022/?v=1

14. Anti-bias Education Puppet Plays

    28 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Julia Robinson

    Cecilia Berg Center for Environmental Education; Hefner Museum of Natural History; Miami University

    Nature provides science content for teacher preparation certification programs and the backdrop for puppet plays used as a springboard for teaching the NAEYC's four goals of Anti-bias...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2009/?v=1

15. Biodiversity research using digitized, internet-based natural history collections

    17 Dec 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Kaitlin Stack Whitney

    Rochester Institute of Technology

    Collections based research is a critical tool for organismal biology and biodiversity research. Yet natural history collections have a complicated past. This multi-class module examines the...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1553/?v=1

16. DEHPD 17 Steps in the Hiring Process

    08 Aug 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Equity & Diversity in Hiring Process Committee

    Higher Education Institutions in Puget Sound

    A 17 step document created by people from marginalized populations for equity and diversity in hiring.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1385/?v=1

17. Avida-ED User Manual

    26 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Diane Blackwood

    Michigan State University

    Basic User manual to use Avida-ED

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/879/?v=1

18. Data Analysis for the Life Sciences

    23 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Rafael A Irizarry¹, Michael I Love¹

    Harvard University

    An online stats book written completely in R

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/841/?v=1

19. Towards better modelling and decision support: Documenting model development, testing, and analysis using TRACE

    20 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Jacqueline Augusiak¹, Andreas Focks¹, Béatrice M. Frank², Faten Gabsi³, Alice S.A. Johnston⁴, Chun Liu⁴, Benjamin T. Martin⁵, Mattia Meli⁶, Viktoriia Radchuk², Pernille Thorbek⁷, Steven F Railsback⁸, Volker Grimm⁹

    1. Wageningen University, Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands 2. Université Catholique de Louvain, Earth and Life Institute, Croix du Sud 2, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium 3. RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Environmental Research, Worringerweg 1, 52074 Aachen, Germany 4. University of Reading, School of Biological Sciences, Philip Lyle Building, Room 405, Reading RG6 6AS, UK 5. University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9620, USA 6. Roskilde University, Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change, Universitetsvej 1, P.O. Box 260, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark 7. yngenta, Environmental Safety, Jealott's Hill International Research Centre, Bracknell, Berkshire RG42 6EY, UK 8. Lang Railsback & Associates 9. Unknown

    We introduce TRACE, a framework for documenting model testing and analysis. TRACE is based on the recently proposed framework of model "evaluation" , and is designed to make models fit for...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/829/?v=1

20. Modeling: A Primer - The crafty art of making, exploring, extending, transforming, tweaking, bending, disassembling, questioning, and breaking models

    29 Jan 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By William Wimsatt¹, Jeff Schank²

    1. University of Chicago 2. Indiana University

    Explore how to use, analyze, and criticize some important and historically influential models in biology in this text only module.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/346/?v=1