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. …
Collaborative Testing
Modern-day science is a collaborative enterprise. That's true of most other professions as well, so learning to work and solve problems with others is …
Cyberlearning helps students with experimental design
Students, and much of the general public, have trouble understanding what makes a good scientific experiment, and changing that is a major goal of …
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Evolutionary Evidence
Making biology education software, like teaching, is a passion rather than a path to riches. What drives us is the idea that we can make learning …
Hollywood and Science Education
Many of us use video clips in our classes, both to illustrate ideas and to engage students. As a colleague recently told me, "somehow I can say …
Evolutionary Questions
Losing is Harder Than Gaining On the research side of SimBio, we spend a lot of time writing questions for testing whether students are learning from …
