On the 60th Anniversary of Keystone Species Keystone Predator, one of SimBio’s most popular ecology tutorial labs, allows students to experiment …
Harnessing Bad AI for Good Teaching
Educators worldwide are dealing with the AI boom, what it means for teaching, and especially what it means for homework. There are many ideas flying …
Study Confirms the Importance of Feedback
Eleven years ago, SimBio received a grant from the National Science Foundation to “develop techniques for automatically providing immediate formative …
Big Ideas from SABER
Finding inspiration at my first in-person conference in over two years. One silver-lining of the pandemic was not getting on an airplane for over two …
Using Simulations to Teach Cell Biology
Challenges & Rewards Every few years we poll our community of biology educators to find out what topics they’re finding particularly tricky to …
Helping Students Become Better Graphers
Biology education research is a core aspect of SimBio’s teaching tools, and many SimBio content developers participate in our research …
Beyond Multiple Choice
The Answers are in the Questions! One of the reasons I enjoy working at SimBio (after three decades of building biology education software) is that …
Virtual Labs vs. Wet Labs?
Study finds they help students learn different (and in both cases important) skills! Biology instructors sometimes ask me why they should use virtual …
Beyond Curriculum
Bridging Gaps in Science Education Over the past decade, the University of Western Ontario quietly built an excellent science education conference …
