Past Workshops

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

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

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

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. 

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

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

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

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

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.