This workshop will provide experience for how to create and implement online, open-source educational modules in tropical ecology through the OCELOTS (Online Content for Experiential Learning of Tropical Systems) network (https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/ocelots). This NSF-funded network brings together ecologists and experts in pedagogy, media, interactive data tools, and software development.

Learn about creating online learning modules based on your own research through the OCELOTS network (Online Content for Experiential Learning of Tropical Systems). Working with specialists in pedagogy, interactive data tools, and media, tropical biologists create modules on a user-friendly, open-access platform with multi-lingual capacity.

Live from the Field Webinar: Global Change

OCELOTS is hosting our third 'Live from the Field' event on November 17 at 10-11 am PST / 1-2 pm EST. The topic is 'Global Change' and features OCELOTS module authors. Please bring your students to this virtual event, pass along this opportunity to other instructors.

Register here for a zoom link: https://cei.sonoma.edu/LFTF-global-change

This event allows instructors to invite researchers & professors into their classroom to offer students a glimpse into the world of scientific inquiry - discover who they are, what sparked their interest in this field, and the questions they're exploring.

This event also introduces people outside the OCELOTS network to our free, online resource library filled with learning modules on tropical Biology, filled with free instructor resources.

OCELOTS Live from the Field Webinar:

Bring researchers into your classroom and give students a window into the process of scientific inquiry. Join us for a chat with researchers and professors to learn about tropical forest microbes in Ecuador and Costa Rica, and how comparisons were made in the context of ecological disturbance for Microbiology and Biochemistry courses in India. Find out who they are, how they got interested in this field, and the research questions they are asking. Live from the Field Instructor Guide and student assignment, and OCELOTS online learning modules, teaching plans & pre-event reading available.

Are you interested in creating an online module in tropical biology that is based on your own research? Apply now to join us for the OCELOTS Fall 2024 – Spring 2025 Incubator, run through the OCELOTS network (Online Content for Experiential Learning of Tropical Systems) and BioQUEST/QUBES. 

Participants in this Incubator will focus on creating an online module in tropical biology on the Gala platform for use in undergraduate biology courses. Synchronous virtual sessions, once every two weeks, will enable participants to learn about various aspects of creating a module, receive mentoring, and support others in the network. Participants will work asynchronously to create their module. 

Applications are due August 20, 2025. 

Please visit https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/ocelotincfa25 to apply. 

Learn about creating online learning modules based on your own research through the OCELOTS network (Online Content for Experiential Learning of Tropical Systems). Working with specialists in pedagogy, interactive data tools, and media, tropical biologists create modules on a user-friendly, open-access platform. Instructors learn about implementing modules in courses.

OCELOTS Spring 2025 Faculty Mentoring Network

Are you interested in adopting online modules that internationalize your curriculum by focusing on authentic research in tropical biology? 

Apply now to join us for the OCELOTS Spring 2025 Faculty Mentoring Network (FMN), run with the OCELOTS Network (for facilitating Online Content for Experiential Learning of Tropical Systems) and BioQUEST/QUBES.

Applications are due December 3, 2024. 

Follow this link to apply: https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/ocelotsfmn25/apply_now

OCELOTS Faculty Mentoring Network - Fall 2024: Adapting a module in tropical biology

Are you interested in adapting an online module in tropical biology that is based on authentic research? Apply now to join us for the OCELOTS Fall 2024 Faculty Mentoring Network (FMN), run through the OCELOTS network (Online Content for Experiential Learning of Tropical Systems) and BioQUEST/QUBES. 

OCELOTS Incubator - Fall 2024: Creating an online module in tropical biology

Are you interested in creating an online module in tropical biology that is based on your own research? Apply now to join us for the OCELOTS Fall 2024 – Spring 2025 Incubator, run through the OCELOTS network (Online Content for Experiential Learning of Tropical Systems) and BioQUEST/QUBES. 

Participants in this Incubator will focus on creating an online module in tropical biology on the Gala platform for use in undergraduate biology courses. Synchronous virtual sessions, once every two weeks, will enable participants to learn about various aspects of creating a module, receive mentoring, and support others in the network. Participants will work asynchronously to create their module. 

Applications are due August 12, 2024. 

Please visit https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/ocelotincfa24for additional information and instructions on how to apply.

Ecological Society of America Workshop: Create and Use Online Modules in Tropical Ecology to Internationalize Your Courses

Workshop Title: Create and Use Online Modules in Tropical Ecology to Internationalize Your Courses

2024 BIOME Institute Workshop: But we don’t teach ecology!

Do you teach an introductory biology course, or a general biology course for non-majors? Is the topic of ecology, especially tropical biology included in your course, beyond the topic of biomes? This workshop will bring together instructors who would like to implement exciting online, open-access modules in ecology that will spark student interest in biology. 

Instructors: Are you interested in adopting an online module that will internationalize your courses? Our modules focus on authentic research in tropical biology — case studies from all over the tropics. Apply now to join us for the OCELOTS Spring 2024 Faculty Mentoring Network (FMN), conducted by the OCELOTS Network (for facilitating Online Content for Experiential Learning of Tropical Systems) and BioQUEST/QUBES.

OCELOTS Incubator - Fall 2023: Creating an online module in tropical biology

Are you interested in creating an online, open-source module in tropical biology that is based on your own research? Apply now to join us for the Fall 2023 – Spring 2024 Incubator hosted by OCELOTS (Network for Facilitating Online Content for Experiential Learning of Tropical Systems) & BioQUEST/QUBES.

Ecological Society of America Workshop

We will demonstrate how researchers have created online modules in tropical ecology, and how instructors have implemented the modules in courses. We’ll promote hands-on experience with the modules and exchange of ideas. 

Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation Workshop

Learn about creating online learning modules based on your own research through the OCELOTS network (Online Content for Experiential Learning of Tropical Systems). Working with specialists in pedagogy, interactive data tools, and media, tropical biologists create modules on a user-friendly, open-access platform. Instructors learn about implementing modules in courses.

RCN-UBE Summit in Washington, DC

The purpose of this Summit to learn more about Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE) and to assess the program's impacts. This community includes representatives of NSF-funded projects, those who are interested in learning more about how to connect with an RCNs, or develop their own RCN proposal. 

Turning ecological research into engaging online modules for undergraduates through Gala/OCELOTS

Learn about creating and adopting online, undergraduate-level modules in tropical ecology. In this NSF-funded network, researchers work with specialists in 4DEE, pedagogy, interactive data tools, and media to create research-based modules, hosted on Gala, a user-friendly, open-source and open-access platform.

Networkshop: Functional trait-based restoration. Can hybrid restoration enhance invasion resistance and ecosystem services?

Authors: Rebecca Ostertag and Nicole DiManno

OCELOTS FMN: Implementing a module in tropical biology

Are you interested in adopting online modules that internationalize your curriculum by focusing on authentic research in tropical biology? Apply by Dec 1 to join us for the OCELOTS Spring 2023 Faculty Mentoring Network (FMN), run with the OCELOTS Network (for facilitating Online Content for Experiential Learning of Tropical Systems) and BioQUEST/QUBES.

Create an online module in tropical biology that is based on your own research! Apply by  August 7, 2022 to join us for the OCELOTS Fall 2022 – Spring 2023 Incubator, run through the OCELOTS network (Online Content for Experiential Learning of Tropical Systems) and BioQUEST/QUBES. These modules to be used in undergraduate biology courses will be hosted on the Gala platform. This workshop will meet via Zoom every two weeks, from September 2022 to May 2023.