Accessibility and UDL

November 25, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Diversity, Instructor Behaviors, Pedagogy, Reflections, Why

Convenient Office Hours?

Tonight’s ASMCUE 2022 poster session recording was entitled “A simple intervention to schedule unique weekly office hours increases student access.” Caitlin Lee Williams is a SPIRE postdoctoral fellow at UNC and taught at UNC-Pembroke. They spoke about barriers to office hours and little research on these barriers. Williams mentioned there is one large exploratory, survey-based […]

November 24, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Instructor Behaviors, Integrative Thinking, Pedagogy, Reflections, Why

The Parasitic Perspective

It was a good Thanksgiving! The kids ate and had fun… and are now asleep. Tonight I continued watching ASMCUE 2022 poster sessions. I watched the recording for the poster entitled “Student Driven Artistic Assignments for Complex Microbiology Processes.” Ryan Kenton is an Associate Professor at the University of Portland. Kenton believes that both science […]

November 23, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Instructor Behaviors, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Why

Stakes, Incentives, and the IMCA

Tonight I watched an ASMCUE 2022 recorded poster presentation entitled “Understanding the Effects of Administration Stakes and Setting on Biology Concept Assessment Scores.” Crystal Uminski from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln was the presenter. They defined concept assessments as tools to measure student learning particularly in biology. They used the cell biology instrument and […]

November 22, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Instructor Behaviors, Pedagogy, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Why

A Careful Assessment of a Lego Complement Activity

I started watching poster presentations from ASMCUE 2022. The first one with a video recording was entitled “Piecing Complement Together with LEGO bricks: Impacts on Interest, Confidence, and Learning in the Immunology Classroom,” presented by Joshua Baty, Suzanne Bohlson, Mallary Greenlee-Wacker, and Heather Bruns. Their research question was: does use of a 3D model help […]

November 21, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Articles, Constructivism, Course Design, Discussions, Diversity, Guest Speakers, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Student groups, UDL, Why

Communicating Science in the Classroom

The last plenary of ASMCUE 2022 was entitled “Communicating Science: Building Bridges not Barriers/Closing comments” and presented by Nancy Boury from Iowa State University. This was the last talk of ASMCUE. Boury teaches general microbiology, genetics, and biology as well as some advanced courses. Boury shared a quote from an introductory first-year biology course with […]

November 18, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Diversity, Instructor Behaviors, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Website, Wellbeing, Why, Workshop, Writing

What makes a good question?

Heather Seitz, Professor of Biology and Biotechnology at Johnston County Community College, presented a session at ASMCUE 2022 about ASK BIO: The Advancing Assessment Skills in Biology Network. The title of the session was “What makes a good question? Examining Assessment Practices in Undergraduate Biology.” Their goal is to advance assessment skills in the life […]

November 17, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Articles, Constructivism, Course Design, Diversity, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Integrative Thinking, Interprofessional Education, Pedagogy, Reflections, Student groups, Why

Algorithms, Social Media Posts, and Students Searching for Evidence

Aarthi Ashok, professor at the University of Toronto, Scarborough, presented at ASMCUE 2022, a recorded microbrew about exploring the Canadian anti-vax movement. The session was entitled “Exploring the anti-vax movement – assignment design to promote scientific literacy and communication.” Students in Ashok’s class explored anti-vaccination stances on social media and providing supporting arguments. The University […]

November 16, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Articles, Constructivism, Course Design, Discussions, Instructor Behaviors, Pedagogy, Reflections, Why

Following One Microbe through Metabolic Pathways

Tonight I started watching ASMCUE 2022 sessions. The first half-hour session I watched (I skipped the CourseSource one since I participated in that one and didn’t want to watch myself!) was entitled “Session. A storytelling approach to microbial metabolism: improving attitudes and functional knowledge.” Jake McKinlay is an Associate Professor at Indiana University. McKinlay teaches […]

November 14, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Discussions, Diversity, Guest Speakers, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Integrative Thinking, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Student groups, Why

Microbiology and Public Health across Languages

The ASMCUE 2022 microbrew session I watched tonight was entitled “Microbrew. Empathetically Engaging With Our Community Through A Service Learning Project.” Pete Chandrangsu, an assistant professor at Scripps College, and Jessie Lee Mills, an assistant professor at Pomona College, were the presenters. They collaborated with the Latino & Latina Roundtable and Pitzer College. Chandrangsu teaches […]

November 13, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Course Design, Discussions, Diversity, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Integrative Thinking, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Student groups, Teaching techniques, Why

Team Science Training for the CUREs

“Microbrew. Implementing team science training in course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs)” was the session title I watched tonight. Anna C. Ward and Heather D. Vance-Chalcraft were the presenters. I know Vance-Chalcraft from citizen science work in the area. I also watched this session live, and it was good to return to it after a coupe […]