Current Events provide teachable moments As educators, we seek to convince our students that the challenging concepts we assign are worth taking …
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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 …
Mentors Honored
SimBio founder Eli Meir honored by the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium The BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium, an innovator of professional development …
What’s The Buzz?
Classroom-based Lotka-Volterra exercise uses real-world mosquito invasion case study to teach difficult concepts. In the past decade, two species of …
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 …
