Student groups

May 22, 2025
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Course Design, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, News!, Online Learning, QM, Reflections, Student groups

Adapting in a New Era of Learning

Today I watched the Quality Matters (QM) Quality in Action titled “Refining the Future of Education: Adapting and Thriving in a New Era of Learning.” The speakers were Heather Braatz and Melissa Wilson both instructional designers. Braatz is at the New England College of Optometry while Wilson is at Buena Vista University. Braatz spoke about […]

February 16, 2025
By Carlos C. Goller
Constructivism, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, JMBE, Metagenomics, Online Learning, Reflections, Student groups, Teaching techniques

Kombucha Project in Microbiology Education: A Success Story

Tonight I watched another JMBE Live! session: Microbiology lobs with virtual and hands-on parts with Marcos Garcia-Ojeda. I skipped the JMBE discussions with editors mostly because I didn’t want to hear myself. Garcia-Ojeda does a lot of work with SABER and other groups. The research article they published in 2022 was about their virtual labs […]

February 7, 2025
By Carlos C. Goller
Constructivism, Course Design, Metacognition, Molecular Biology Education Research, Pedagogy, Reflections, Student groups, Undergraduate Research

Benefits of CUREs on Scientific Identity in Undergraduates

I am happy to have found the JMBE YouTube playlist I had forgotten about! Tonight I watched the session on “CURES increase students’ scientific self-efficacy, scientific identity, and self-assessed skills.” Grace Borlee and Carolina Mehaffy were the guests, and the session was moderated by Stanley Maloy, JMBE Editor-in-chief. Mehaffy is at Colorado State University along […]

May 29, 2024
By Carlos C. Goller
Course Design, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Reflections, sequencing, Softwares, Student groups, Undergraduate Research

From Plant to Publication in a Couse

I have been curious about the title of a session from London Calling 2024: “Empowering scientists with data literacy skills in long-read genomic sequencing.” Katharina Wolff from TU Braunschweig in Germany was the presenter and explained the wide variety of plants and potential for genome sequencing. Wolf and the team wanted to enable students to […]

May 26, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Information Literacy, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Reflections, sequencing, Service Learning, Softwares, Student groups, Undergraduate Research

Undergraduate Research with the CREWS Project

Megan Radosevich from Carroll College presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 on “Analyzing regional and seasonal microbial community variation from a contaminated Montanana river.” Their project is called CREWS: Consortium for Research on Environmental Water Systems that is funded by the Montana NSF EPSCoR Partnership with several colleges and universities in Montana. A central […]

January 9, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Diversity, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Student groups, Why

Fourteen Recommendations and Several Great Questions about Creating More Inclusive Environments

“Creating More Inclusive Environment for LGBTQ+ Bio” is the title of the Online with LSE Webinar recording I watched tonight. It is from almost two years ago. Sara Brownell was the speaker and presented work from a SABER Special Interest Group (SIG) that worked on recommendations. Brownell shared recommendations that language matters (I paraphrase and […]

January 8, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Articles, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Diversity, Instructor Behaviors, Online Learning, Reflections, Student groups, UDL, Wellbeing, Why

Challenges for Undergraduates with Disabilities with Online Courses

After watching Dr. Logan Gin moderating an Online with LSE Webinar session, I was reminded about the session he did and rewatched it tonight. The title of the session was “COVID-19 and STEM Undergraduates with Disabilities: Challenges Resulting from the Transition to Online Course Delivery” and it happened a little over a hear ago, around […]

January 1, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Articles, Books, Constructivism, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Diversity, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Pedagogy, Reflections, Student groups, Why

Perceptions of Evolution by Community College Students

I start 2023 by returning to the ASCB YouTube playlist! The Online with LSE CBE Webinar Series is a lot of fun, and I missed several sessions. Tonight I watched the session entitled “Understanding and Perceptions of Evolution by Students in Community College and Other Institutions” presented by Elizabeth Barnes, an Assistant Professor at Middle […]

December 31, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Diversity, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Mentoring, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Student groups, UDL, Wellbeing, Why

Interpreting and Communicating in Undergraduate Research Experiences

To end the year, I watched the JMBE Live session with Laura E. Ott entitled “Supporting Deaf Students in Undergraduate Research Experiences.” This session was recorded over a year ago.Ott was at UMBE when she started this work and now has been at UNC for several years. She began by sharing the statistics on Deaf […]

December 30, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Articles, Constructivism, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Diversity, Instructor Behaviors, Pedagogy, Publishing, Reflections, Student groups, Undergraduate Research, Why

Learning from Struggles and Frustration

Justin DiAngelo from Penn State Berks, Amy Hark from Muhlenberg College, Anne Rosenwald from Georgetown University, and Matt Wawersik from William & Mary presented at JMBE Live over a year ago. I finally had a chance to watch this recording. They are all authors on the “Facilitating Growth through Frustration: Using genomics Research in a […]