On the 60th Anniversary of Keystone Species Keystone Predator, one of SimBio’s most popular ecology tutorial labs, allows students to conduct …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
