scholarly journals Innovations and best practice in undergraduate education

F1000Research ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 646
Author(s):  
George R. Littlejohn ◽  
Graham Scott ◽  
Mary Williams
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Undergraduate Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Experimental Biology ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching

University-based scientists hold the collective responsibility for educating the next generation of citizens, scientists and voters, but the degree to which they are individually trained and rewarded for this pursuit is variable. This F1000Research channel has its origin in a Society for Experimental Biology Conference held in Prague, 2015 and brings together researchers who excel at undergraduate education or the scholarship of teaching and learning to discuss challenges and best practices in contemporary higher science education.

Access and Inclusion in Emergency Management Online Education: Challenges Exposed by the COVID-19 Pivot

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline S. Hackerott ◽  
Alyssa L. Provencio ◽  
Jenniffer M. Santos-Hernandez
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
Learning Framework

Abstract This paper reviews the extant literature on the development of online education within the discipline of emergency management and identifies areas exposed by the COVID-19 pivot needing further examination. We suggest utilizing a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning framework to identify best practices for responding to issues of access and inclusion.

Bridging the Divide With SoTL: Connecting Knowledge With Best Practice in Communication Disorders

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (10) ◽  
pp. 14-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer C. Dalton ◽  
Joseph Klein ◽  
Dawn C. Botts
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Starting Point

In this article, a model of evidence-based practice is presented that engaged graduate students and instructors from the discipline of communication sciences and disorders (CSD) in evidence-based education through the use of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). This article can serve as a starting point for other instructors interested in engaging in SoTL in their own CSD classrooms.

Emerging Educational Technologies and Science Education

2010 ◽  
pp. 276-284
Author(s):  
Bruce C. Howard ◽  
Lawrence Tomei
Keyword(s):  
Educational Technology ◽  
Science Education ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Educational Technologies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Practice Teaching ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
The Individual

When discussing emerging educational technologies, the complaint around the globe is common enough: we may be outfitting schools with classrooms of the future, but teaching methods remain mired in the past. In the six articles that follow we describe our research on choosing and applying emerging educational technologies in the light of what we know about best practice teaching methods. Whereas many well-respected experts have addressed the need for new methodologies, we chose to focus on the process of choosing the technologies themselves. We set out to determine how to evaluate the individual promise an educational technology may hold and to provide guidelines to those who choose and use the technologies for teaching and learning.

Who SoTLs Where? Publishing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Political Science

2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (04) ◽  
pp. 729-735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerstin Hamann ◽  
Philip H. Pollock ◽  
Bruce M. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Assistant Professors ◽  
Political Science Education ◽  
Field Of Inquiry

Political science, as a discipline, is a relative newcomer to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). We examine authorship patterns of SoTL articles inPS: Political Science & Politics, theJournal of Political Science Education, andInternational Studies Perspectivesfrom 1998–2008. Our findings indicate more collaborative SoTL articles compared to non-SoTL teaching articles. Authorship patterns reveal a relatively high presence of women, assistant professors, and authors housed in Ph.D. and BA departments for SoTL publications. We conclude that SoTL constitutes an important new field of inquiry in the discipline that is likely to become more prominent as a younger cohort of scholars matures.

scholarly journals Assessing Outcomes of Simulation in Communication Sciences and Disorders

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Clinard
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Simulation Research ◽  
Simulation Based

Assessment is an ongoing process that is necessary at every stage of designing, implementing, and evaluating simulation-based learning experiences (SBLEs). Designing and aligning a high-quality assessment process provides instructors and researchers with valuable data to understand if students have met the desired simulation learning objectives, where students are in their learning, and opportunities to enhance the SBLE. This reflection discusses the importance of assessing student learning outcomes as well as the effectiveness of all simulation-based learning experiences (SBLEs) in communication sciences and disorders (CSD). While the benefits and effectiveness of simulation have been demonstrated in other health professions, simulation research is in its beginning in CSD. Building the evidence to inform systematic integration of simulation into CSD curricula and to further best practices in our field is essential. Further, to advance the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in simulation, researchers and instructors must disseminate their findings, measures and tools, assessment processes, and even simulation scenarios. Dissemination serves to enhance evidence-based education practices and further validate the assessment processes we are using to ensure quality simulation.

scholarly journals Editorial

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (SI) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Wilmot ◽  
◽  
Lynn Quinn ◽  
Jo-Anne Vorster
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Academic Development ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Diverse Learning ◽  
Global North ◽  
Uncritical Acceptance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Local Research

The field of academic development in South Africa has produced a wealth of research over the thirty years of its existence. The impact of globalisation, however, has meant that local research in the field of academic development is often regarded as being of lesser value than knowledge from the global North and the so-called ‘best practices’ that emerge from it. The impact of uncritical acceptance of ‘best practice’ approaches from the global North is that understandings of teaching and learning tend to be divorcedfrom the context of practice. As a result, the application of such approaches often failsto accommodate the diverse learning needs of students and are not responsive to complex institutional and global South contexts.

scholarly journals OVarFlow: a resource optimized GATK 4 based Open source Variant calling workFlow

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jochen Bathke ◽  
Gesine Lühken
Keyword(s):  
Next Generation Sequencing ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Variant Calling ◽  
Data Evaluation ◽  
Phenotypic Trait ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Sequencing Data ◽  
Sequencing Technologies ◽  
Generation Sequencing

Background Next generation sequencing technologies are opening new doors to researchers. One application is the direct discovery of sequence variants that are causative for a phenotypic trait or a disease. The detection of an organisms alterations from a reference genome is know as variant calling, a computational task involving a complex chain of software applications. One key player in the field is the Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK). The GATK Best Practices are commonly referred recipe for variant calling on human sequencing data. Still the fact the Best Practices are highly specialized on human sequencing data and are permanently evolving is often ignored. Reproducibility is thereby aggravated, leading to continuous reinvention of pretended GATK Best Practice workflows. Results Here we present an automatized variant calling workflow, for the detection of SNPs and indels, that is broadly applicable for model as well as non-model diploid organisms. It is derived from the GATK Best Practice workflow for "Germline short variant discovery", without being focused on human sequencing data. The workflow has been highly optimized to achieve parallelized data evaluation and also maximize performance of individual applications to shorten overall analysis time. Optimized Java garbage collection and heap size settings for the GATK applications SortSam, MarkDuplicates, HaplotypeCaller and GatherVcfs were determined by thorough benchmarking. In doing so, runtimes of an example data evaluation could be reduced from 67 h to less than 35 h. Conclusions The demand for standardized variant calling workflows is proportionally growing with the dropping costs of next generation sequencing methods. Our workflow perfectly fits into this niche, offering automatization, reproducibility and documentation of the variant calling process. Moreover resource usage is lowered to a minimum. Thereby variant calling projects should become more standardized, reducing the barrier further for smaller institutions or groups.

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