Microbial Ecology Educational Resources |
1. ISME needs your help with regard to Microbial Ecology Educational Resources
Since many ISME members are involved in either undergraduate or graduate student education there has been growing interest in expanding the activities of ISME to enhance the assembly and distribution of educational resources to help service the needs of our community.
One concept that has been discussed is to create a web-accessible resource site similar to the American Society for Microbiology Education and Resource portal but emphasizing microbial ecology where educators could share class materials.
Such teaching materials might include laboratory and field classroom experimental designs, virtual laboratory exercises, bioinformatics tools useful for classroom use etc.
In adition to resources for formal classroom use, we have considered that there may be interest in sharing the designs of so-called “outreach” activities that are intended to show the broader impact of research that is more and more commonly required by governmental agencies that support microbial ecology research.
Plans are also being made to include a session on education in microbial ecology at the up-coming ISME 14 meeting in Copenhagen in August, 2012.
At this early stage of development we need your feedback on several issues:
One concept that has been discussed is to create a web-accessible resource site similar to the American Society for Microbiology Education and Resource portal but emphasizing microbial ecology where educators could share class materials.
Such teaching materials might include laboratory and field classroom experimental designs, virtual laboratory exercises, bioinformatics tools useful for classroom use etc.
In adition to resources for formal classroom use, we have considered that there may be interest in sharing the designs of so-called “outreach” activities that are intended to show the broader impact of research that is more and more commonly required by governmental agencies that support microbial ecology research.
Plans are also being made to include a session on education in microbial ecology at the up-coming ISME 14 meeting in Copenhagen in August, 2012.
At this early stage of development we need your feedback on several issues: