SimBio examines whether location affects students' quality of learning One benefit of building interactive tutorials with auto-graded questions …
SimBio Ecology – Comprehensive ecology education
In 2018, the governing body of the Ecological Society of America adopted the Four-Dimensional Ecology Education Framework (4DEE) that made explicit …
Risk, Insurance, & Climate Policy
Ecology is a scientific discipline. Its practitioners make observations, generate plausible explanations (i.e. hypotheses) for what they note, and …
The hidden benefits of Ecology courses
More than Meets the Eye Students are eager to acquire skills that will serve them in the real world. This is understandable. School is expensive, and …
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 …
Climate Change & Disease
Climate Change & Disease - Encouraging biology students to critique what they read Open the paper on any given day and you’re likely to read …
Icky Stories as Teachable Moments
Zombie ants, tapeworms, fungi & feces! “You can talk about sex, or you can gross ’em out.” This is author and educator Dr. Jon Herron’s sure-fire …
Highlights from SABER
While it was not my first time going to the Society for the Advancement of Biological Education Research (SABER)’s annual meeting, it was my first …
Urban Ecology – Beyond Rock & Ice
Like many ecologists, I was drawn to the field for the promise of exploring spectacular remote landscapes populated by herds of migrating caribou, …
