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Organizers:
Stacey Smith? (The University of Ottawa)
Description:
This minisymposium will bring together education experts to examine up-to-the-minute problems that showcase the usefulness and applicability of mathematical biology in education in a post-COVID world. Now that online and hybrid teaching are tools that can be easily integrated, how has the classroom changed? What are the challenges in teaching a cohort that is effectively missing high-school education? How do educational philosophies differ across global communities? The audience is the mathematical biologist with an interest in education. This includes students, postdocs and professors, mathematicians interested in seeing biological applications and biologists who wish to see how mathematics can be used in teaching.
Diversity Statement:
The organiser and speakers are all underrepresented minorities. Education has been seen as a feminised subject, with more of an appeal to women than the more “pure” research subjects. Historically, this has lowered its status in the eyes of many. However, it also has the ability to appeal much more broadly; less specialised knowledge means more accessibility to the subject, giving underrepresented groups a way to contribute without have to climb as many ladders as they might in other fields.
Kathleen Hoffman (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
"Improvement of Quantitative Reasoning Skills in Transfer and Direct Entry Students Exposed to Cell Biology Modules"
Stacey Smith? (The University of Ottawa)
"To pre-record or not to pre-record? Lessons learned from video instruction in a flipped classroom"
Angela Peace (Texas Tech University)
"Teaching Mathematical Ecology across the disciplines"
Rebecca Everett (Haverford College)
"Building an Applied Track at a Small Liberal Arts College: A Work in Progress"
Michael Kelly (Transylvania University)
"Beyond an introduction: advanced interdisciplinary data science in the liberal arts."
Meredith Greer (Bates College)
"Assessment Strategies in the Teaching of Mathematical Biology"
Elissa Schwartz
"Math bio education in Nepal vs the US"
Laura Strube
"SMB Postdoc Cohort Communities: Providing support for the transition to independence in interdisciplinary research"
