QUBES: A community supporting teaching and learning in quantitative biology
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QUBES (Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis) is a 5-year, multi-institutional NSF-funded project to address a “call to action” in reports put forth by many institutions, including NSF, NIH, AAAS, and HHMI, among others. The challenges in these reports include preparing students for 21st century science in biology by addressing the need for students to gain skills in quantitative biology (QB) reasoning and literacy. Quantitative, as we see it, encompasses the mathematical (modeling), computational (simulation), and statistical (data analysis) realms.
In this talk I will quickly introduce the five key components of the QUBES project: the Consortium (institutions and societies with common goals in QB education), Hub (the online virtual community leveraging HUBzero infrastructure), Faculty Mentoring Networks (supporting faculty in the understanding and implementation of QB in the classroom), Metrics (redefining professional metrics of success in QB education), and Implementation Research (studying project success). For the remaining time, I will discuss some project visions for QUBES Hub, with possible topics including the exploration of what does and does not work in creating faculty mentoring spaces online, attempts to realize the 5R permissions of Open Education Resources (retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute), and interactive repositories for models and data.
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Drew LaMar
Drew is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the The College of William and Mary. He completed his PhD in mathematics from The University of Texas at Austin in 2005.
His research interests are in quantitative biology, broadly defined to include mathematical modeling, data analysis, and computer simulation. He is a principal investigator of the NSF sponsored QUBES project (Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis -https://qubeshub.org), which focuses on strengthening quantitative skills for both faculty and students in the undergraduate life sciences curriculum.
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HUBzero Foundation
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