A Start-up Manual for Undergraduate Research Students in Microbiology:
Active Learning from the Very Beginning
MicrobeLibrary Curriculum: Laboratory
5/1/2000 by Keri Law, Min-Ken Liao, Rachel Lamb
This start-up manual accomplishes two main goals: time effectiveness and education
through active learning. |
Transforming a Sequence of Microbiology Courses Using Student Profile Data
MicrobeLibrary Article: Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education
5/1/2000 by Rosa Buxeda, Deborah Moore
Results of a study performed in two
courses to increase research awareness at an early stage of the educational process
and to establish collaboration between students in an Industrial
Microbiology program and industry. |
Undergraduate Epidemiology and Case Studies
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
5/1/2000 by M. M. (Kelly) Cowan
How can you teach epidemiology without problems and case studies? But before I respond to that question, let me describe the course in question, its goals, and the target student population.
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Case/Problem-Based Approach to Teaching Microbiology
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
5/1/2000 by Kim Finer
Case-based or problem-based learning offers an attractive alternative to the lecture format. Strengths of this approach include the fact that students can apply their own experiences and previous knowledge. |
Problem-Based Learning Groups in Large Classes:
What I Have Learned the Hard Way
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
5/1/2000 by Florence Schmieg
The above two scenarios suggest different potential difficulties when using groups to solve problems in a large class. In part, this is true. Yet I have found more similarities than differences. |
Building Teams of Diverse Students to Cooperatively
Solve Problems of Microbial Origin
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
5/1/2000 by Janine Trempy
The most effective method, however, was cooperative learning where students taught each other and were involved in using the material. This method had a greater than 90% retention rate. |
A Diversity of Strategies for a Diversity of Learning Styles:
A Recipe for Success
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
5/1/2000 by Beverly Smith
In this article I will further examine learning styles, as defined by Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory (LSI), and provide examples of activities best suited for each type of learner. |
Microbiology Education:
A New Venue for Scholarship in Microbiology Education
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
5/1/2000 by Spencer Benson, Amy Vollmer
We are pleased to announce a new venue, a peer-reviewed publication, Microbiology Education. |
Using Computer Technology to Foster Learning for Understanding
MicrobeLibrary Article: Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education
5/1/2000 by Lewis Tomalty, Elaine Van Melle
A paper describing how computer technology, specifically the use of a multimedia CD-ROM, was
integrated into a microbiology curriculum as part of the transition from focusing on facts
to fostering learning for understanding. |
An Evaluation of Computer-Based Instruction in Microbiology
MicrobeLibrary Article: Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education
5/1/2000 by Jerry Leventhal, Laura Walman, Susan Merkel
Paper describing the effectiveness of
an evaluation of a computer-based
hypermedia tutorial that was delivered over a
General Microbiology website. |
Teaching Emerging Diseases: A Strategy for
Succeeding with Nonmajors
MicrobeLibrary Article: Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education
5/1/2000 by Marion Field Fass
The evaluation of a nonmajors course on emerging diseases which served to introduce students to basic concepts in microbiology and to improve scientific literacy. |
A Genetics Laboratory Module Involving Selection
and Identification of Lysine Synthesis Mutants in the Yeast
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
MicrobeLibrary Article: Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education
5/1/2000 by Ruth Reed, Jill Keeney
A paper describing the effectiveness of a laboratory exercise
using the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to convey the
concepts of amino acid biosynthesis, mutation, and gene complementation. |
Microbiology Education - Volume 1, 2000
MicrobeLibrary Article: Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education
5/1/2000 by Multiple Authors
Volume one of ASM's Microbiology Education journal, with articles about hypothesis-driven research in the area of student learning and other facets of microbiology education. |
Focus on Microbiology Education Newsmagazine - Spring 2000
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
5/1/2000 by Multiple Authors
Features articles on teaching undergraduate microbiology. The issue's theme is "Teaching Techniques." |
Microbial Revolution
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
2/1/2000 by Linda Sherwood
Taxonomists were not the only ones impacted by Woese’s discoveries. Every teacher of microbiology faced the same dilemma: what to teach and how to teach it. |
To Three or Not to Three, That is the Question
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
2/1/2000 by Leslie Lichtenstein
Teaching classification seemed to be on lots of minds last winter. Whether to teach Whittaker’s Five Kingdoms, Woese’s Three Domains, or some combination of both generated lots of responses on two listservs. |
Molecular Phylogeny in the Undergraduate Microbiology Laboratory
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
2/1/2000 by Jeffrey Newman
Using of molecular data to have students to solve a real laboratory problem, the identification of their unknown microbe. |
Bacterial Taxonomy: Melding Morphology and Molecular Phylogeny
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
2/1/2000 by Janet Siefert
In 1977, Carl Woese and George Fox at the Univ. of Illinois proposed a radical idea in taxonomy. One of the most striking implications of this research, and the subsequent technical advances of genetic sequencing, was its impact on bacterial taxonomy. |
Learning Styles and Microbiology Education:
a New Emphasis in a New Millennium
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
2/1/2000 by Beverly Smith
As educators, we are continually trying to understand the natures of our students and to define what we must do for them if they are to learn our subject. |
You are not Alone!
Report from the UK
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
2/1/2000 by Joanna Verran
Having attended a couple of the ASM Undergraduate Microbiology Education conferences and the recent Gordon Conference, I thought members might like to know a little about how other microbiologists active in education disseminate some of their work. |
