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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
