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 …
Better feedback through Cyberlearning
With the start of a new academic year comes the dreaded, seemingly never-ending stream of grading. Grading, and providing feedback to students in …
Tips on Tests
I'm just returning from what is becoming one of my favorite conferences, the SABER meeting on biology education research. As a company that is driven …
Asking Different Questions Increases Learning
As we look for ideas to improve our SimUText Ecology chapters, I've been digging through literature on how students learn from reading. Last week I …
Home Computers Increase the Digital Divide
Computing is becoming ubiquitous in education, College students need to have a computer and many K-12 schools are starting to hand them out to …
