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 …
In-class learning or homework?
SimBio examines whether location affects students' quality of learning One benefit of building interactive tutorials with auto-graded questions …
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 …
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 …
