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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)
Collaborators
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
Ethel Stanley
Director, BioQUEST Curriculum
Consortium
Sam Donovan
BEDROCK Project
John Greenler
Biocomplexity Project
Amanda Everse
BioQUEST Website
BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium’s
3 P’s:
Problem Posing
Problem Solving
Persuading Peers
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.
BioQUEST
Projects
LifeLines OnLine
The BioQUEST
Library
Investigative Case-Based
Learning
Bioinformatics
Education
Microbiology
Education
Microbes Count!
Evolution
Education
BEDROCK
Biocomplexity
Education
Biocomplexity
Education
Develop develop
teaching strategies for
integrating
biocomplexity and its
multidisciplinary
approaches to problem
solving in undergraduate
education.
BioQUEST’s Biocomplexity Project
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?
Biocomplexity
in Education
Biocomplexity
in Education
• Addresses significant contemporary issues
Biocomplexity
in Education
• Addresses significant contemporary issues
• Requires collaboration, integration and an
interdisciplinary approach
Biocomplexity
in Education
• Addresses significant contemporary issues
• Requires collaboration, integration and an
interdisciplinary approach
• Employs multiple modes of understanding and
learning
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
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)
So what are the lessons from
BioQUEST’s 18 year history that are
relevant to biocomplexity?
Biocomplexity Education
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