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Innovative Assessment Strategies Using Chatbots

Tonight I started watching some of the JMBE Live sessions I missed. This session was from May 17, 2024 and Greg Crowther and Thomas Knight shared their paper. Stanley Maloy, JMBE Editor-in-Chief, facilitated the session. Knight started by defining higher and lower-order cognitive skills (HOCS and LOCS). Knight defined lower-order cognitive skills from Bloom’s levels […]
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Understanding Regular and Substantive Interaction in Course Design

QM has provided several wonderful webinars and ideas for me to consider. Tonight I watched the recording for the session “Incorporating Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI) into Course Design and Delivery.” Jenny Davis from the University of Cincinnati presented an interactive session. Davis explained that in July of 2021, the US Department of Education defined […]
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AI Innovations in Online Course Design at QM Connect 2024

I watched the last AI Lightning Talk from the QM Connect 2024 conference. Rudy Lopez with the Alamo Colleges District was the presenter of the session “AI to the Rescue: Elevating Quality Assurance in Online Course Design.” As part of the certification of online courses, instructors complete course design training that includes course mapping. The […]
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Using AI for Diverse Learners’ Support

Tonight I watched the last session of the QM Connect conference 2024 AI Lightning Talks (part 1). Dr. Geetanjali Soni works with NC Public Schools and works on the North Carolina Virtual Public School. The title of the session was “Leveraging AI to provide Instructional Support for Diverse Learners.” Soni emphasized that AI can help […]
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Explore MetaPathPredict and OMEGGA: Tools for Bioinformatics

Tonight I watched another KBase Science Session: Data integration to support (or refute) predictions. “Integrating data to predict functions for gaps in metabolic models” was the title of Bill Nelson’s session. Nelson is from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The work was part of two PNNL SFA projects: a soil microbiome project and a persistence […]
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KBase Pipeline for Protein Function Prediction

Continuing with the KBase Science Session: Data integration to support (or refute) predictions, tonight I watched Chris Henry from Argonne National Laboratory present on “Predicting Protein function using structure nd sequence similarity in KBase.” Henry and team built a pipeline in KBase to analyze structure and sequence similarity data. Henry noted that KBase has a […]
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Enhancing Microbiome Data Collection with NMDC Tools

I’m still watching day 2 of the ISME19 workshop “From Reads to Function.” This session included Iyanu Oduwole, Emile Skoog, and Kent Pham. They introduced NMDC and Sample Metadata. The National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC). Iyanu Oduwole is a Genome Science and Technology Ph.D. candidate at Bredesen Center UTORII. Emilie Skoog is a postdoctoral researcher […]
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Understanding Metagenomics Workflows in KBase

I continued watching the ISME19 Workshop “From Reads to Function” day 1 sessions. Next, Ben Allen from KBase spoke about “Metagenomics in KBase.” Allen went over metagenomics workflows in KBase. They explained that the workflow is based on the Chivian et al. (2023) Nature Protocols publication. Allen shared a graph with the NCBI Sequencing Read […]
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