the bioquest curriculum consortium reform in undergraduate biology education
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The BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium
Reform in Undergraduate Biology Education
The BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium
is funded by:
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• National Science Foundation
• Education Outreach and Training - Partnership for Advanced Computing Infrastructure (EOT-PACI)
CollaboratorsJohn Jungck
Editor, The BioQUEST Library
Virginia Vaughan
Managing Editor, The BioQUEST Library
Robin Greenler
Biocomplexity Project
Tia Johnson
Coordinator of Outreach-BEDROCK
Deb Lynch, Sue Risseeuw
Project Assistants,
BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium
Ethel Stanley
Director, BioQUEST Curriculum
Consortium
Sam DonovanBEDROCK Project
John GreenlerBiocomplexity Project
Amanda EverseBioQUEST Website
BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium’s
3 P’s:
Problem Posing
Problem Solving
Persuading Peers
The BioQUEST LibraryContains over 75 software simulations, tools, data sets, and other supporting materials from many areas of biology including ecology, evolution, genetics, molecular biology, physiology, developmental biology, botany, and neurobiology.
BioQUEST Projects
LifeLines OnLine
Investigative Case-Based Learning
Bioinformatics Education
BEDROCKEvolution Education
Biocomplexity Education
Microbiology Education
Microbes Count!
The BioQUEST Library
Biocomplexity EducationDevelop develop teaching strategies for integrating biocomplexity and its multidisciplinary approaches to problem solving in undergraduate education.
BioQUEST’s Biocomplexity Project
BiocomplexityTools of the trade:
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS) • Computer-aided visualization• Mathematical and statistical models• Simulation models• Real-time data acquisition • Data mining• Evolutionary bioinformatics• Investigative case based learning• Others?
Biocomplexityin Education
Biocomplexityin Education
• Addresses significant contemporary issues
Biocomplexityin Education
• Addresses significant contemporary issues
• Requires collaboration, integration and an interdisciplinary approach
Biocomplexityin Education
• Addresses significant contemporary issues
• Requires collaboration, integration and an interdisciplinary approach• Employs multiple modes of understanding and learning
Biocomplexityin Education
• Addresses significant contemporary issues
• Requires collaboration, integration and an interdisciplinary approach• Employs multiple modes of understanding and learning• Engages students in a diversity of techniques and hands-on inquiry
Biocomplexityin Education
• Addresses significant contemporary issues
• Requires collaboration, integration and an interdisciplinary approach• Employs multiple modes of understanding and learning• Engages students in a diversity of techniques and hands-on inquiry• Allows for participation in contemporary scientific research (questions and results)
So what are the lessons from BioQUEST’s 18 year history that are relevant to biocomplexity?
Need to provide opportunity for students to pose real questions, access and grapple with real data, using real computational tools
Biocomplexity Education
Need to provide opportunity for students to pose real questions, access and grapple with real data, using real computational tools
Direct, “real time” access of contemporary research into the classroom is critical
Biocomplexity Education
Need to provide opportunity for students to pose real questions, access and grapple with real data, using real computational tools
Direct, “real time” access of contemporary research into the classroom is critical
Technology can be an enabler to inquiry oriented, constructivist, student directed learning
Biocomplexity Education
Need to provide opportunity for students to pose real questions, access and grapple with real data, using real computational tools
Direct, “real time” access of contemporary research into the classroom is critical
Technology can be an enabler to inquiry oriented, constructivist, student directed learning
Case based approach can provide a good entree into a problem space
Biocomplexity Education
