SimBio (http://simbio.com) and the Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) project invite applications for a Faculty Mentoring Network (FMN) focused on using SimBio’s SimUText Ecology™ as a platform to incorporate more active learning into ecology courses. Participants in this FMN will each pick two SimBio chapters to implement in their course, and will work together with SimBio authors to develop and implement in-class activities to accompany those chapters with the goal of providing increased active-learning opportunities to their students.
The FMN will have two main objectives: 1. To develop, localize, and test in-class activities for ecology classes that can be shared with other faculty, and 2. To promote group-learning and sharing around implementation strategies for the in-class activities. The Faculty Mentoring Network is a mentored, long-term community interaction on the QUBES site. The group will begin working online in July, with a set of three online two hour meetings. Applicants must be teaching ecology or an equivalent course in Fall 2016 and be able to commit to 1-2 hours per week, including online meetings. Participants will receive a stipend for participation. Upon completion of the Faculty Mentoring Network participants will post their materials and teaching guidelines for sharing with other ecology faculty. SimBio will be hosting 20-30 minute webinar sessions at the following times to discuss the FMN project with instructors who may be interested in participating: -Friday April 8th @ 9am pacific, 10am mountain, 11am central, 12pm eastern -Friday April 8th @ 11am pacific, 12pm mountain, 1pm central, 2pm eastern -Friday April 15th @ 10am pacific, 11am mountain, 12pm central, 1pm eastern Please visit http://simbio.com/simutext-ecology-FMN to register for a session or https://qubeshub.org/groups/simbiofmn for more information. Questions? Contact Eli Meir ([email protected]) or Alison Hale ([email protected]).
