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Lessons and Resources from CourseSource

Tonight I watched the ASMCUE 2022 session entitled “Inspiring Evidence-Based Teaching Innovations in Biology Classrooms with the Journal CourseSource.” Jenny Knight, the Editor in Chief at the University of Colorado Boulder, presented this session about CourseSource. I attended this session live, and likely missed key information! There are 39 editors, 12 advisory board members, and […]
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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 […]
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Interactivity with H5P

Dr. Sacha Johnson from Idaho State University presented at the Quality in Action Quality Matters (QM) conference in April a session entitled “Don’t just click next! Increase instructional interactivity instead.” Johnson is a Senior Instructional Designer. The session outcomes were to define instructional interactivity and identify ways to add instructional interactivity with direct connections to […]
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Online Class Meetings

Stella Porto, Learning Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank talked last year (October 2020) about the history of online education during a Quality Matters session. Porto discussed how accessibility and technology limitations made online education mostly asynchronous. During the shift to emergency online teaching, instructors used synchronous class meetings to simulate the in-person meetings. However, Porto mentioned […]
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Active Teaching for Today’s Students

It has been an interesting week! Classes started, and I have enjoyed the energy that students bring. I observed a Zoom synchronous session, launched our online yeast course, participated in a virtual workshop, and attended a faculty and instructional design virtual break. At the same time, I’m working on scheduling and planning our summer programs […]
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