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NCBI Curriculum Design Workshop

Workshop Description:

In today's workshop we will:

    • Introduce you to our curricular development processes  
    • Show how we approach our content design based on common course standards and topics 
    • Provide three examples of lesson plans for instruction 

After this workshop, you will:  

    • Understand the NCBI curriculum development process and how we attempt to connect our teaching methods to common course standards and goals  
    • Understand how NCBI resources can be used in active learning exercises with experience in three distinct, hands-on case studies
    • Be able to adapt and implement our lesson plans to suit your own course and students' needs 

Workshop Duration:  3 hours

Content Difficulty:  Beginner

Target Audience: 
Today’s workshop was designed for educators at the high school and community college level. Although we are primarily focusing on molecular biology topics using web-based NCBI resources, the curriculum design method that we discuss may be relevant for those who teach at the intersection of science, technology, engineering, art, math, and medicine (STEAMM) courses. 


NCBI Faculty:

image of Rana MorrisRana Morris, Ph.D. is an NCBI Customer Experience team member and currently the Outreach Program Lead. Since 2002, she has provided user support and training, as well as working with supervisors and development teams to improve NCBI resources based on user-centered design principles. Her doctoral, post-doctoral and research fellowship work integrated disciplines of computational and experimental biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology and genetics, and has included diagnostic development, drug design and coordination of genetics/genomics components of clinical trials

image of Sally ChangSally Chang, Ph.D. is a member of the NCBI Customer Experience and Outreach teams and specializes in creating workshops and supporting other events for people performing eukaryotic genome analysis. Her doctoral and post-doctoral work involved exploring cnidarian genome and transcriptome sequences as useful animal models to understand key biological processes such as tissue regeneration. Dr. Chang's skills encompass evolutionary biology, computational biology, as well as bioinformatics training and curriculum development.

image of Sally ChangAlexa Salsbury, Ph.D. is a member of the NCBI Customer Experience and Outreach teams and specializes in coordinating codeathons and creating workshops and supporting other events for people performing biomolecular structure analysis. She has extensive experience in computational education and a research background of computational chemistry, structural biology, and biophysics.


Data Access Technology:  NCBI Website

NCBI Resources:  a bunch......

Last Reviewed: July 12, 2024