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Participants in the 2017 Summer Workshop "Making Meaning through Modeling: Problem solving in Biology"
Making Meaning through Modeling: Problem solving in Biology.
At this summer's workshop, which ran from July 23-28, we delved into how to engage our students more productively with models and the process of modeling. We discussed how to enhance the skills students need to understand and build models, how to expand upon models already in our curriculum, and ultimately how to enhance student understanding of the nature and process of science with modeling. All of this discussion occurred in the context of effective pedagogical approaches, the sharing of excellent resources, and the building of community around effective use of models. Workshop participants will continue to work with colleagues on the QUBESHub through the fall semester to develop and implement new approaches or materials.
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What's New with Faculty Mentoring Networks
QUBES Faculty Mentoring Fellows Program
During the Spring of 2017, QUBES launched a new initiative – the Faculty Mentoring Fellows Program. Individuals with interesting instructional ideas and cool materials to share with others were recruited to become fellows and to lead upcoming QUBES Faculty Mentoring Networks (FMNs).
Fellows met online to learn how QUBES Faculty Mentoring Networks operate, how they could best reach out to share their educational know-how and materials with others via QUBES, and develop plans for Fall 2017 or Spring 2018 Faculty Mentoring Networks. Scroll down to see some of the upcoming Faculty Mentoring Networks led by our Fellows!
Read the following blog post by Jeremy Wojdak to meet the mentoring fellows and to learn more about the perks of participating in the Fellows Program.
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Upcoming Faculty Mentoring Networks
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Dates: September 15, 2017 - April 27, 2018
Peer Mentor: Holly Gaff - QUBES Fellow
Registration: Open till September 15 - REGISTER NOW |
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Dates: November 1, 2017 - May 31, 2018
Peer Mentor: Erin Bodine - QUBES Fellow
Registration: Open till September 30 - REGISTER NOW |
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Dates: August 28 - November 3, 2017
Peer Mentor: Hong Qin - QUBES Fellow
Registration: Closed |
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Dates: September 11 - December 4, 2017
Peer Mentors: Ben Galluzzo and Maria Hernandez - QUBES Fellows
Registration: Closed |
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Dates: August 28 - December 08, 2017
Peer Mentors: Melissa Kjelvik and Liz Schultheis
Registration: Closed |
Current Faculty Mentoring Networks
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Dates: April 1 - December 31, 2017
Peer Mentors: Molly Phillips and Anna Monfils |
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Dates: June 1, 2017 - January 31, 2018
Peer Mentors: Melissa Csikari and Kristine Grayson |
Partner Activities
The Network for Integrating Bioinformatics into Life Sciences Education (NIBLSE, “nibbles”) seeks to establish bioinformatics as an essential component of undergraduate life sciences education. NIBLSE has developed a set of bioinformatics core competencies that are available on its homepage (here) and that are described in a paper recently posted on bioRχiv (here). In addition, NIBLSE is developing the Learning Resource Collection (here), a collection of curated bioinformatics learning resources. To enrich the Collection, NIBLSE has partnered with QUBES on Development Incubators in which authors work collaboratively with NIBLSE members to refine a learning resource for submission to a peer-reviewed journal, such as CourseSource. In addition, previously-published learning resources can be added to the Collection.
If you would like to submit a resource, use this submission form. If you would be willing to participate in an Incubator, please fill out this form. You can learn more about NIBLSE, Incubators, and the Learning Resource Collection at niblse.org.
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