“DryadLab - Using real data to engage students in scientific inquiry”: a QUBES Faculty Mentoring Network
Spring 2016 Apply by January 1, 2016 DryadLab and Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education Synthesis (QUBES) are pleased to offer a unique networking and professional development opportunity from January – April 2016 for faculty interested in bringing authentic research data into undergraduate classrooms. DryadLab is an educational extension of the Dryad Digital Repository, which contains freely available research data from thousands of published scientific papers. DryadLab provides open, high-quality, hands-on, data-driven educational modules suitable for use in undergraduate classrooms, developed by the authors of the original publications in collaboration with experienced educators. Over the course of this network, faculty will implement selected DryadLab modules in their courses with a focus on providing students with quantitative skills. QUBES (https://qubeshub.org) is an NSF-funded virtual center that supports collaboration to promote quantitative biology education at the undergraduate level. Benefits of Participation -Access to ready-to-use teaching modules. Participants will incorporate at least 1 of the selected DryadLab modules in Spring 2016 classes -Access to peer mentors for effective teaching tips and strategies in small group virtual meetings every two weeks -Letter sent from QUBES to your department chair recognizing your contribution to teaching scholarship Please visit qubeshub.org/groups/dryadlab/dryadlabfmn for more details and to apply. Questions? Contact Sam Swauger ([email protected]) or Alison Hale ([email protected]).
