The Archives
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02.15.09` Darwin Resources – Part 1As you already know — Darwin is having a big year in 2009. All the incredible resources are providing great opportunities to learn, and teach more about evolution. I've listed a few of my favorites here and I hope that you will include others you have found useful in the comments section below. Here is a listing of the materials discussed below: The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online Society for the Study of Evolution Birthday Card Video Scientific American Darwin Special Issue Year of Science Celebrates Evolution Science - Celebrating Darwin National Center for Science Education — Darwin in the Popular Press The ...
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02.13.09` Welcome to the new BioQUEST blogWelcome to the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium (BQCC) Blog. We are very excited to have you as a reader and we hope that you will find and share useful information here. There are several things we hope to accomplish using this blog including: Sharing information more efficiently about BQCC activities and resources. We are currently involved a in diverse collection of projects and collaborations which may be of interest to members of the consortium and we think that short, informal blog posts will be an effective way to share what we are working on. Establishing a more dynamic conversation about undergraduate biology education ...
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02.13.09` ActionBioscience: An issues approach to biologyBioQUEST has had the pleasure of collaborating with many interesting projects over its 20+ year history. We are using Partner Profiles to share some of that richness with the undergraduate biology education community. For this profile we spoke with Oksana Hlodan, the Editor in Chief of ActionBioscience.org. The profile interview was conducted via e-mail over several days in February 2009. In a nutshell, what is Action Bioscience and why should faculty teaching undergraduate biology be aware of it? ActionBioscience.org is the education web site of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) and was created to promote bioscience literacy by examining issues ...
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02.10.09` Where Are We? Evolution SurveyWelcome to our first online survey. We call our surveys "Where Are We?" because they are designed to provide us all with a sense of where we stand as a community. This first survey focuses on teaching evolution. The process is simple. You respond to a series of 10 questions (it should only take about 5 minutes). We will compile the data and share it back to the community for discussion. No individual data will be shared but we can all learn something in the process. The "Where Are We? Evolution Survey" will be open until March 16th and then we will ...
