2023 ESA - Symposium 25 - Leveraging Open Educational Resources for Inclusive and Effective Ecology Education
This is a resource page for ESA 2023 Symposium 25
Organizer: Natasha Gownaris
Co-organizers: Kyle Whittinghill, Taylor Zallek, Nathan Brouwer, Aaron Howard, Dan Wetzel, Castilleja Olmstead, Nathan Emery.
Additional Presenters: Cailin Huyck Orr, Sean Fox, Sam Donovan, Ellen Bledsoe
See Education materials from ESA 2023 on QUBEShub
Presentations and associated resources:
Introduction to the Symposium
Ecology for All! Finding and Contributing to Open Textbooks in Ecology Courses
Presenter: Kyle Whittinghill (University of Vermont)
- Ecology For All
- Whittinghill2023ESA.pdf (Acrobat (PDF) 2.4MB Aug9 23)
- Libretext
- Jupyter Notebooks
- Hypothesis collaboration tool
Ensuring a thriving open education resource ecosystem: perspectives from 20 year at the Science Education Resource Center (SERC)
Presenter: Cailin Huyck Orr (SERC)
- OER Symposium 25 Orr 2023.pptx (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 17.5MB Aug7 23)
- Science Education Resource Center (SERC)
- Teach the Earth Portal: community created resources for teaching about Earth
- Help us Tune Our OER Search Engine - a quick exercise
- Example of NGSS tagging method
- Controlled vocabulary for OER tagging on SERC
The interacting roles of cyberinfrastructure and social support in fostering faculty engagement with open education resources
Presenter: Sam Donovan (BioQUEST)
- BioQUEST Evolution and Revolution in STEM educaiton
- ESA education materials on QUBESHub
- The interacting roles of cyberinfrastructure and social support in fostering faculty engagement with open education resources.pptx (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 9.8MB Aug10 23)
- Example of a publication on QUBES with doi citation
- Example of materials with tracked adaptations: Changes in Lake Ice: Ecosystem Response to Global Change
- Example of FMN group hosting on QUBES: Project EDDIE FMN
The BEDE Network: At the intersection of data science and open source education.
Presenters: Ellen Bledsoe online (University of Arizona) & Nate Emery in Portland (US Santa Barbara)
- BEDE_NetworkTalk_EmeryBledsoe_2023.pptx (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 4MB Aug2 23)
- BEDE Network NSF RCU-UBE project Abstract
- Vision and Change 2010
- Emery et al. 2021: Data Science in Undergraduate Life Science Education
- Catherine Hulshof VCU
- Biodiversity Collective data in the wild
Additional Resources