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 …
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 …
Helping Undergraduates Understand Natural Selection
Our Research is Making a Difference! Most SimBio authors, myself included, come from biology research backgrounds, so it’s not good enough for us to …
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Important Learning Gains from Genetic Drift & Bottlenecked Ferrets
A Guest Post from Dr. Rebecca Price I'm excited to turn my blog over to Rebecca Price from the University of Washington, Bothell. Rebecca …
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Team-based Learning Using SimBio’s Evolution Labs
Some novel approaches from our customers At the Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE) conference this past summer in Boston, Dr. …
