Instructor Behaviors

E-Service-Learning

Samiksha Raut and Sara Adkins-Jablonsky presented at JMBE Live, and I watched the recording tonight. The title of the session is “Impacts of a COVID-19 E-Service-Learning Module in a Non-Major Biology Course.” Raut is an Associate Professor at The University of Alabama at Birmingham and Adkins-Jablonsky is now a student is osteopathic medicine. Raut acknowledged […]
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Antiracist Opportunities

Chelsey Nardi from the University of Colorado Denver is a doctoral candidate and presented at JMBE on their article about antiracist opportunities. The overview Nardi presented summarized the article: Nardi focused in the recorded session on the finding that “active learning does not equal inclusive teaching.” She also mentioned that authentic research experienced with unpaid […]
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Creating a Specifications Grading Course

The JMBE Live session I watched today was on “The Effects of Specifications Grading in a Cell Biology Course.” I watched it from the JMBE YouTube. Stanley Maloy, JMBE Editor, was the moderator. The authors are from Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) and included Shoshana Katzman, Jennifer Hurst-Kennedy, Elisabeth Javazon, Alessandra Barrera, Jennell Talley, Mary Diaz, […]
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The BER Field

The JMBE live session I watched tonight was about Getting Started in Biology Education. I was able to participate in the course and today worked with Jeremy! Jeremy Hsu and Stanley Lo shared the open access article published in JMBE that describes biology education research (BER). Lo shared quotes from JMBE and SABER about how […]
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Responsible and Ethical Management of Lab Notebooks

I am continuing to watch the ASM JMBE live sessions. The session was entitled “Training for Responsible and Ethical Management of Lab Notebooks in CUREs.” Caitlin Light presented their study along with Sonia Hills, a former undergraduate peer mentor. Light is at Binghampton University and involved with the first-year research immersion program. The program enrolls […]
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Kombucha and Virtual Labs

Tonight I watched a recent JMBE Live session I missed with Marcos Garcia-Ojeda on Ddecember 2, 2022. They described their adaptations to online lab sessions. The title was “Microbiology Labs with Virtual and Hands-On Parts.” Garcia-Ojeda published this work with colleagues in the JMBE 2022 special issue. Garcia-Ojeda explained that there are several challenges to […]
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Two Sessions with Maha Bali

This morning the ASCN group hosted Maha Bali. It was a fun session and timely, as tonight I am watching the keynote of the Alternative Assessment Institute 2022. It was really interesting to watch the session after having participated in one earlier. Bali shared slides at: https://bit.ly/altassessBali Bali starts with a check in to learn […]
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A Decade Later, Reflections on Alternative Assessments

Tonight I watched the Alternative Assessment Institute 2022 session entitled “Revisiting the Authentic Assessment Framework a Decade after it as Created to Measure the Authenticity of Contemporary Assessment Tasks” presented by Kelley Burton. They are from the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. Burton published “A Framework for Determining the Authenticity of Assessment Tasks: […]
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Adaptable Assessments

Suzanne Wakim presented a session entitled “Adaptable Assessment Design” at the Alternative Assessment Institute 2022. Wakim is a biology and honors faculty at Butte Community College in California. Wakim also trains faculty in online course design. They spoke about disasters and the need to shift to online education. Wakim noticed that courses with adaptable assessments […]
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Assessment with Student Partners

“Engaging Students as Partners in Assessment” was the title of the session Madison Taber presented at the Alternative Assessment Institute 2022. Taber is a Director of Assessment at the Our Lade of the Lake University in Texas. Taber is also a Ph.D. student interested in identity and equity in education. Taber self described as a […]
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