Educator Voices

To develop our Model Builder web tool, BioInteractive worked with Jon Darkow, an educator in Ohio. This Q&A discusses the Model Builder development process and the features he's most excited about.

Our new Interactive Video Builder tool lets educators embed their own questions into our videos. In this Educator Voices article, Annie Prud’homme-Généreux details research-based strategies for designing effective interactive videos.

Liberating Structures are a set of easy-to-implement ideas for structuring group discussions. In this article, Annie Prud’homme-Généreux, a professor in Canada, details how she pairs these structures with BioInteractive resources.

In this Educator Voices video, professor Kathy Jones describes how she introduces her community college students to the primary literature using Science in the Classroom.

In this Educator Voices article, BioInteractive staff and Ambassadors share suggestions for adapting and implementing BioInteractive resources for an online learning environment.

In this video Educator Voices post, University of Richmond professor Kristine Grayson discusses the Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) HHMI BioInteractive Educator Publications Portal and the challenges of adapting resources for her classes.

In this Educator Voices article from Taylor University professor John Moore, he outlines how he couples metacognitive strategies with BioInteractive animations to help students understand how they're thinking about complex processes like DNA replication.

Case studies are powerful tools for teaching. In this article, hear from University of Oklahoma professor Phil Gibson about how he uses case studies with his students to foster community within his classroom.

Students often come to Duke professor Brian Silliman’s class feeling like asking scientific questions is reserved for a select few. In this video Educator Voices post, see how he uses the Asking Questions activity with his students to help them generate and refine their scientific questions.

In this article, Mitchell Community College professor Parks Collins uses an argumentation framework that combines BioInteractive resources and a structured approach to addressing a controversial question: if viruses are alive.