QUBES (Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis) is excited to offer these semester-long professional development opportunities designed to engage you with faculty from around the country (or world!) to enhance your teaching. If you have any questions, please contact Deb Rook ([email protected]) or Nicole Chodkowski ([email protected]).
DATA EXPLORERS: Using ecological data in undergraduate biology classrooms Are you a community college or lower-division instructor interested in bringing data-driven lessons into your classroom? Focus on how to effectively teach students data analysis and visualization skills using Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) modules in undergraduate biology courses, by customizing and implement educational modules. Apply by November 30, 2018. Visit https://qubeshub.org/groups/dataexplorers_2019 SIMBIO FACULTY MENTORING NETWORK Led by CC Carson and Eli Meir Do you teach undergraduate Ecology? Are you interested in active learning approaches that emphasize quantitative reasoning? Participants will build mini-case studies as classroom activities to reinforce concepts and approaches explored in SimBio’s SimUText Ecology interactive chapters.. Through bi-weekly virtual sessions, participants will discuss best practices for using mini-case studies, and will critique and help improve case studies developed by their FMN colleagues. Apply by November 21, 2018. Visit https://qubeshub.org/groups/simbio2019 R FOR DBER Led by Melissa Aikens and Drew Lamar Are you interested in learning R to be able to apply it to your education-based research? Learn how to use R, including how to get started in R, exploratory data analysis, and basic statistical techniques such as t-tests, ANOVAs, and linear regression. Participants will use R to analyze their own data set. Apply by December 7, 2018. Visit https://qubeshub.org/groups/r4dberfmn SERENITY NOW! Led by Drew Lamar Are you interested in developing student’s data science skills in your biology course? Participants will adapt data-driven modules for undergraduate life science courses using the software tools Radiant and Serenity. These tools are platform-independent browser-based interfaces to bring data science tools to the classroom, with a particular focus on data visualization, communication, and bridging students to R scripting skills. Apply by December 15. Visit https://qubeshub.org/groups/serenityfmns19 MAKING THE CASE: Using Case Studies to Increase Quantitative Biology Skills Led by Phil Gibson Are you interested in adopting case studies that address quantitative reasoning skills? Participants will use case studies available from the National Center for Case Study Teaching In Science as a platform for introducing these important data literacy skills into biology classrooms. Apply by December 7, 2018. Visit https://qubeshub.org/groups/cases2019 MAKE TRUBLE: Make Teaching with R in Undergraduate Biology Less Excruciating Led by Suann Yang Are you an undergraduate biology instructors with prior R programming experience who are interested in learning to teach with R to students with little programming experience? You will develop, implement, and share modules using Swirl. Swirl provides a guided, interactive experience through on-screen prompts and exercises which students answer directly in the RStudio console. Apply by November 30, 2018. Visit https://qubeshub.org/groups/make_truble NEON Data Education Fellows Faculty Mentoring Network Led by Megan Jones and Kusum Naithani The National Ecological Observatory Network (https://www.neonscience.org/) and the QUBES are pleased to offer networking and professional development opportunities through this FMN for faculty interested in implementing or adapting existing NEON teaching materials to their educational settings. Apply by December 14, 2018. Visit https://qubeshub.org/groups/neon2018 BIOMAAP: Biology Students Math Attitudes and Anxiety Program Led by Jeremy Wojdak and Arietta Fleming-Davies Are you interested in alleviating math anxiety in undergraduate biology students? Quantitative skills are essential for student success in biology, and math attitudes and anxiety can have strong effects on both persistence and performance. This FMN will familiarize faculty with background on how math attitudes can impact Biology students, and help participants explore a range of tools to address math attitudes and anxiety in their Biology courses. Apply by December 1, 2018. Visit https://qubeshub.org/groups/biomaapfmn2019
