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Carrió Llach, Mar; Llerena Bastida, Maria – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: Higher education institutions (HEIs) have a great responsibility to put education for sustainable development at the centre of their work. Curricula should therefore start to incorporate the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and key competencies in sustainability, and research should be carried out to determine effective learning…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Sustainable Development, Objectives, Curriculum Development
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Alexander, Stephen; Hannink, Mark – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2019
We describe an advanced, inquiry driven undergraduate course in Cancer Biology that combines faculty lectures typical of undergraduate courses with literature-driven discussions typical of graduate courses. As a capstone course, one goal of this course is to integrate knowledge from previous coursework in physiology, cell and molecular biology,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Physiology, Cancer, Biology
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Junk, Damian J.; Berger, Nathan A. – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2022
The Youth Enjoy Science -Teach To Beat Cancer program funded by the National Cancer Institute utilizes the resources of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center to provide experiences and training for grade 6-12 teachers so that they are expertly equipped to develop curricular approaches to take…
Descriptors: Cancer, Secondary School Teachers, Science Education, Oncology
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Brokaw, James J.; O'Loughlin, Valerie D. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2015
In 2008, the Indiana University School of Medicine, in collaboration with the School of Education, admitted its first student to a newly approved PhD program in Anatomy and Cell Biology focusing on educational research rather than biomedical research. The goal of the program is twofold: (1) to provide students with extensive training in all of the…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, Doctoral Programs, Anatomy, Cytology
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Knisley, Jeff; Behravesh, Esfandiar – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2010
Because quantitative biology requires skills and concepts from a disparate collection of different disciplines, the scientists of the near future will increasingly need to rely on collaborations to produce results. Correspondingly, students in disciplines impacted by quantitative biology will need to be taught how to create and engage in such…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Biology, Interdisciplinary Approach, Curriculum Development
Howard Hughes Medical Inst., Chevy Chase, MD. Office of Grants and Special Programs. – 1996
This meeting proceedings provide a forum for the program directors to discuss various educational challenges facing undergraduate science departments and to learn how their colleagues in other institutions are addressing the same challenges. The meeting theme was New Tools for Science Education and participants examined issues related to how new…
Descriptors: Biology, Biomedicine, Curriculum Development, Educational Technology