Peer-Reviewed Teaching Resources with Jenny Knight and Sharleen Flowers

Jan 30, 2024

Jenny Knight and Sharleen Flowers discuss the origins and purpose of CourseSource, an open-access journal that offers peer-reviewed teaching resources for biology. They talk about the format of lesson articles, the use of learning frameworks, and the importance of sharing teaching resources. They also mention efforts to expand physics resources and the role of CourseSource in scholarly communication.

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Introduction

00:00 • 4min

Teaching as a Passion and the Course Source Website

03:31 • 7min

Exploring Learning Frameworks and Their Benefits

10:45 • 2min

Teaching Resource Lesson Articles

12:50 • 23min

Expanding Physics and the Importance of Learning Frameworks

36:05 • 3min

Sharing Teaching Resources and the Role of CourseSource

39:24 • 2min

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CourseSource is an open-access journal now entering its tenth year that has a variety of peer-reviewed teaching resources for biology, primarily detailed lesson plans tagged by course and topic for easy searching. I found out about CourseSource years ago, and I was amazed at the catalog of high-quality lesson plans and other teaching resources there. I keep running into biology faculty who don’t know about this great resource, which is also kind of amazing. What I haven’t found are resources like CourseSource in other disciplines.

I reached out to the editorial team at CourseSource to find out more about the project and try to figure out why biology has a resource like this but other disciplines don’t. On the podcast today I talk with Jenny Knight, associate professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at the University of Colorado Boulder and editor-in-chief of CourseSource, and with Sharleen Flowers, postdoctoral fellow at CU Boulder and managing editor at CourseSource.

We talk about the kinds of teaching resources that educators can find at CourseSource, the origins of the project, what it takes to make a project like this work, and how a peer-reviewed publication like CourseSource can help higher ed value teaching in more concrete ways.

Episode Resources

· CourseSource, https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/coursesource

· Jenny Knight’s faculty page, https://www.colorado.edu/mcdb/jenny-knight

· 2024 Intentional Teaching slow read, https://derekbruff.ck.page/posts/relationship-rich-education-and-the-start-of-the-intentional-tech-slow-read

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