Academic Development

Innovative Thinking in Biotechnology

Tonight I watched the ASMCUE 2022 recorded session entitled “Promoting Innovative Thinking in Biotechnology.” The title caught my attention: this sounds like BIT! This session was presented by Samantha Orchard who described an assignment in a biotechnology course they teach. Orchard began by describing global challenges and the need for “innovation: inspiration, creativity, analysis, technology, […]
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Comparing Groups and Assessments

Shawna Reed from Quinnipiac School of Health Sciences presented the recorded ASMCUE Microbrew session entitled “Paired and Compared Lessons for the Microbiology Flipped and Hybrid Classroom.” Reed compared cooperative and individual active learning approaches and compared different lesson types. Reed defined active learning and constructivism as: “students generate meaning by actively engaging in experiences, constructing […]
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GoogleForms for Unknown Microbe Identification

Dr. Lauren Brooks presented a ten-minute recorded session for ASMCUE 2022 entitled “Online unknowns: a supplement for the microbiology lab.” Brooks is faculty at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY. Their learning objectives were to revisit the unknown identification lab since it is often only performed “once or twice in a semester.” Brooks recreated the unknown […]
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TopHat and Technology in a Food Folklore Course

Dr. Bwalya Lungu, Associate Professor of Teaching at UC Davis, presented a recorded session at ASMCUE entitled “Integrated Approaches to Teaching Improve Overall Student Learning and Engagement in Large Classes.” Lungu spoke about the origins of this study and the need to improve the course based on feedback from student evaluations and technological advances. They […]
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Case Studies with Significant Examples

Emily Rotich from South College in Nashville TN and Jennifer Thomas from Belmont University also in Nashville presented a recorded ASMCUE 2022 session entitled “Improving Student Performance Using Significant Examples to Explain Concepts.” They started by explaining how many professional disciplines use case studies and help students build on prior knowledge and a scenario. The […]
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Coyotes and Bacteria to Brains!?

Adam Keinschmit and Andrea Bixler created a case study as part of ImmunoReach: an NSF-supported Research Coordination Network. Their ASMCUE 2022 recorded session is entitled “ImmunoReach: Bacteria to Brains in Backyard Coyotes Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Case Study.” The case study is written as a conversation between two graduate students. One studies urban coyotes and is taking […]
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Assessing Student Learning with a New Receptor-Ligand Activity

Tonight I watched the ASMCUE 2022 recorded session entitled “ImmunoReach: At the Intersection of Biochemistry & Immunology.” Heather A. Bruns and Sharifa Love-Rutledge presented this ten-minute recorded session. They both created this activity and implemented it at the University of Alabama Huntsville and UAB, with class sizes 13 and 31, respectively. They designed this receptor-ligand […]
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The IMMUNOLOGY Game

Tonight I watched the ASMCUE recorded session entitled “IMMUNOLOGY! A Board Game to Learn the Immune Response,” presented by Alicia Cecil, Mary Gobbet, and Emma Wade. This is a board game Cecil created with colleague Gobbet and student Emma Wade. They mentioned the game is adaptable to other topics. Cecil teaches clinical microbiology at the […]
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Wastewater Treatment Facilities and Quantitative Fluency

Tonight after an eventful and painful day (eye infection!), I tried to watch another ASMCUE 2022 session. The recorded ten-minute session was entitled: “How Can We Be Assured Our Water is Safe? A Lab Exercise to Teach the Scientific Method,” and David Singleton from York College was the presenter. At York College, BIO 230 is […]
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The Right to be Persuaded

I continue to watch ASMCUE 2022 sessions even though my eye hurts today! I watched a couple of sessions from BIT instructors, and now found Heather Townsend’s recorded session entitled “Fostering Scientific Literacy through the Identification of Credible Sources.” Townsend is a good friend, and we have worked together for a couple of years now. […]
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