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BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium: Reform in Undergraduate Biology Education

The BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium promotes reform in undergraduate biology education through problem posing, problem solving, and persuading peers. Their library includes software simulations, tools, and data sets from various biology areas. The Biocomplexity Project focuses on integrating interdisciplinary approaches to problem solving.

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BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium: Reform in Undergraduate Biology Education

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  1. The BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium Reform in Undergraduate Biology Education

  2. 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)

  3. Collaborators Ethel Stanley Director, BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium Sam Donovan BEDROCK Project John Greenler Biocomplexity Project Amanda Everse BioQUEST Website John 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

  4. BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium’s 3 P’s: Problem Posing Problem Solving Persuading Peers

  5. The BioQUEST Library Contains 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.

  6. BioQUEST Projects LifeLines OnLine Investigative Case-Based Learning The BioQUEST Library Bioinformatics Education BEDROCK Evolution Education Microbiology Education Microbes Count! Biocomplexity Education

  7. Biocomplexity Education Develop develop teaching strategies for integrating biocomplexity and its multidisciplinary approaches to problem solving in undergraduate education.

  8. BioQUEST’s Biocomplexity Project

  9. Biocomplexity Tools 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?

  10. Biocomplexity in Education

  11. Biocomplexity in Education • Addresses significant contemporary issues

  12. Biocomplexity in Education • Addresses significant contemporary issues • Requires collaboration, integration and an interdisciplinary approach

  13. Biocomplexity in Education • Addresses significant contemporary issues • Requires collaboration, integration and an interdisciplinary approach • Employs multiple modes of understanding and learning

  14. Biocomplexity in 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

  15. Biocomplexity in 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)

  16. So what are the lessons from BioQUEST’s 18 year history that are relevant to biocomplexity?

  17. Biocomplexity Education Need to provide opportunity for students to pose real questions, access and grapple with real data, using real computational tools

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

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