Education
Writing a modern biology textbook for the Indian classroom: the experience with iThink Biology
In December 2021, Azim Premji University inaugurated a free online textbook, called iThink Biology. In this article, a faculty at the University and an author of the textbook shares the thoughts that went behind its creation and why it is a unique educational resource for Indian undergraduate students and educators of biology.
Posted on in Education, Teaching, Undergraduate & Interdisciplinarity
Talk with teachers: Blurring boundaries between arts and sciences
Mala Radhakrishnan is a scientist-poet and a professor of chemistry at Wellesley College, USA. She writes and performs chemistry-themed poetry, including poems based on biochemistry, and has published two poetry books. In this interview, she shares insights into how science and poetry can be integrated into education.
Posted on in Education, Women in Science, Teaching & Science communication
The tigress and her cubs
In this article, a student remembers a phenomenal educator, researcher and mentor from her undergraduate days, who inspired generations of students. The author portrays the strong personality of this leader and her lesser-known softer side.
Posted on in Women in Science, Teaching & Personal Experience
Teaching biology using analogies
Looking for interesting analogies to explain complex biological concepts to your undergraduate students? Rachana Acharya, an Assistant Professor at Ramniranjan Jhunjhunwala College, Mumbai, shares some of them in this article.
Posted on in Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Teaching, Undergraduate & Education
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- 2022
How I tested my students through memes
Aniruddha Datta Roy
Posted on in Evolutionary Biology, Teaching, Undergraduate, Education
Everything you need to know about framing a research hypothesis
Adita Joshi
Massive open online course-inspired education
Lakshmy Ramakrishnan
Common misconceptions in biology: Lost in translation
Maya Murdeshwar
Posted on in Molecular Biology, Education, Teaching, Undergraduate, Education
Problem-based learning can impart skills for life
Lakshmy Ramakrishnan
Common misconceptions in biology: Making sense of the sense and antisense DNA strands
Maya Murdeshwar
Posted on in Molecular Biology, Teaching, Undergraduate, Education
- 2021
Understanding interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity
Madhumitha Krishnan
Common misconceptions in biology: What are habitats, microhabitats and niches?
Abhijeet Bayani
Common misconceptions in biology: Misconceptions around diffusion and osmosis
Nagarjuna G
Posted on in Biophysics, Teaching, Undergraduate, School Education
In a rat race for certificates
Hansika
Teaching with Twitter
Andrea Phillott
Posted on in Conservation Biology, Teaching, Personal Experience, Undergraduate
Games and higher education in biology
Saurabh Mahajan
Alumni-student mentoring: A lighthouse on a stormy night
Charu D. Rawat & Gunwant Singh Atwal
Teaching evidence-based conservation
Andrea Phillott
Posted on in Environmental Sciences, Conservation Biology, Wildlife Biology, Teaching, Undergraduate, Education
Talk with teachers: Developing academic depth beyond the curriculum
Vijeta Raghuram
Common misconceptions in biology: What fuels the body?
Maya Murdeshwar
Posted on in Biochemistry, Teaching, Undergraduate, Education
How can we teach how to read a research paper to undergraduate students?
Anuttama Kulkarni
Common misconceptions in biology: Species richness and diversity are the same?
Abhijeet Bayani
Posted on in Ecology, Conservation Biology, Wildlife Biology, Teaching, Undergraduate, Education
Getting an in-house science journal up and going – an academic adventure
Bhavna Daswani & Hema Subramaniam
- 2020
Common misconceptions in biology: Alleles at a locus and the number of alleles in a population
Sushama Yermal
Undergraduates in lockdown: Sustaining research projects with CUBE Home Labs and chatShaala
Meena Kharatmal, Nagarjuna G & Kiran Yadav
Online education in India – the good, the bad and the ugly!
Prashanthi Karyala & Sarita Kamat
Equitable digital education – blockers and enablers
Charu D. Rawat & Pranjal Gupta
How can science education research be used for improving college teaching?
Ashish Nerlekar
Online education, not a threat but a boon for higher education
Aparna Dixit
Digital literacy in the midst of an outbreak
Charu D. Rawat
Talk with teachers: "Teacher networking groups can be beneficial"
Aditi Jain
Posted on in Evolutionary Biology, Plant Biology, Developmental Biology, Teaching, Undergraduate
Teaching Alternate Biological Science: A research-based learning model to teach biology
Joel P. Joseph
Preventing plant blindness: Looking at plant life beyond the green hue
Aditi Jain
Posted on in Plant Biology, Environmental Sciences, Teaching, Personal Experience, Outreach
Reading popular literature helps build disciplinary literacy - An example from conservation science
Andrea Phillott
‘Four Generations’ of scientists discuss undergraduate research in India
Smita Zinjarde, Karishma Kaushik, Snehal Kadam & Rupanwita Majumder
- 2019
Strategies for productive faculty-undergraduate research assistant partnerships
Andrea Phillott
Lessons from a mental health workshop in an undergraduate college
Charu D. Rawat & Sagnik Das
Course-based undergraduate research experience: students become scientists
Yashika Kapoor
Talk with teachers: contemporary teaching will have to rely on teacher networks
Aditi Jain
Talk with teachers: rewarding student research requires college teachers to be recognised as guides
Urvashi Bhattacharyya
Talk with teachers: I am glad that I was mentored, not ‘supervised’
Aditi Jain
Posted on in Plant Biology, Teaching, Personal Experience, Mentorship
Teachers connect
Anusha Krishnan
Slaying hoaxes: harnessing fake ‘scientific’ information to teach science
Anusha Krishnan
Talk with teachers: Collaborating with a senior teacher can facilitate faculty mentoring
Aditi Jain
Posted on in Ecology, Teaching, Young Investigators, Mentorship
An ecologist and a game designer walk into a forest
Bharti D K
Vigyan Pratibha – An innovative learning space for middle school students
Rohini Karandikar
Teaching scientific writing to college students
Lakshmi Supriya
Posted on in Health & Medicine, Teaching, Undergraduate, Science communication
Science Education in Marathi at HBCSE
Rohini Karandikar
The language of concepts in chemistry and biology textbooks
Anusha Krishnan
“Internet, the mentor of my undergrad education” - a personal account of online learning
Ronak Borana
Education Innovation Conference 2019 - Delhi: A report
Aditi Jain
The growing Indian biopharmaceutical industry: its requirements and endeavours
Ibani Kapur & Navodita Jain
Posted on in Health & Medicine, Pharmacology, Teaching, Undergraduate
Botanical Tree-Thinking: a card game to teach plant evolution
Bharti D K
Posted on in Evolutionary Biology, Plant Biology, Teaching, Undergraduate, Research
Bringing online citizen science to classrooms
Suchitra Sankaranarayan
- 2018
Teaching climate change and rapid evolution: the case of the comatose fruit flies
Anusha Krishnan
Posted on in Evolutionary Biology, Environmental Sciences, Teaching, Research
Teaching statistical concepts to ecology students, the sweet way!
Lakshmi Supriya
In higher education, what relationship do teaching and research share?
Bidisha Ghosh
Jugaad in science: effective biology practicals on a shoe-string budget
Anusha Krishnan
Sixty percent of threatened Indian mammals are endemic
Navodita Jain
Posted on in Ecology, Conservation Biology, Personal Experience, Undergraduate, Research
Education should enable youth to focus on local problems
Navodita Jain
When flies played football !
Deepti Trivedi
Posted on in Developmental Biology, Personal Experience, Undergraduate
Talk with teachers: The critical inputs
Urvashi Bhattacharyya
Talk with teachers: Going the extra mile
Urvashi Bhattacharyya
Deliberately introduced errors as a pedagogical tool: the teaching of energy flow
Anusha Krishnan
Engaging science teachers of Maharashtra state schools : a report
Anupma Harshal
What is research?
Vidya Jonnalagadda
The triangle connect: the three levels to teaching meiosis
Anusha Krishnan
Posted on in Cell Biology, Teaching, Undergraduate, Research
- 2017
Making laboratory practicals engaging, relevant and effective
Anil Kumar Challa
Instalment 3: "One teaching technique that made a difference..."
Lata Shahani
Second instalment: “One teaching technique that made a difference in my class…”
Ranjana Agrawal & Aashutosh Mule
"One teaching technique that made a difference in my class..."
Sarita Kumar & Sushama Yermal
Plagiarism in Indian education: is it permitted misconduct or ignorance?
Hema Ramachandran, Divya Sinha & Medha Rajadhyaksha
Talk, blend and perform: tackling the Lab courses
Asim Auti
Talk, blend and perform: my adventures in the classroom to engage students
Asim Auti
Can we incorporate peer review in science classrooms?
Reeteka Sud
Teachers weigh in...
Reeteka Sud
UG Teachers’ workshop on Research-Based Pedagogical Tools: a participant's perspective
Manohar GM
Inquiry and Integration in Education (Course report)
Saurabh Mahajan & Reeteka Sud
“Make problem-solving an integral part of UG classrooms”
Reeteka Sud
Experiences in using the scientific method as a structure to teach Biology
Swati Patankar
- 2016
Jigsaw classroom: using student differences to bolster student learning
Reeteka Sud
Undergraduate faculty discuss meaningful pedagogy
Reeteka Sud
Teachers weigh in…
Reeteka Sud
Where there is ‘skill’, there are many ways
Charu D. Rawat
Traditional lecturing, flipped
Reeteka Sud
On developing research-based pedagogy in India: a conversation with Pete Sides
Reeteka Sud
Training the trainers: A report on teacher training workshop at IISER Pune
Reeteka Sud
Challenging teachers to question their own assumptions about students — a conversation with Teri Balser
Reeteka Sud
Teri Balser on current state of higher education: “the problem isn’t one of motivation, but of misalignment”
Reeteka Sud
Bacteriophages: Beacon of hope amidst the sea of superbugs
Urmi Bajpai
Posted on in Health & Medicine, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Teaching, Personal Experience, Undergraduate
- 2015
Model building as a pedagogy approach in biology
Kundan Sengupta
DBT Star Colleges Nurture Excellence in Undergraduate Science Education
Suman Govil
Integrating Research into Undergraduate Education: an interview with Utpal Banerjee
Nandini Rajamani
Transition from quantity to quality: Biotechnology post-graduate education
Shreya Mallik
- 2013
- 2012
- 2011
Low budget digital microscopy for schools and informal learning environments
Anil Kumar Challa
Integrated PhD: a road less travelled and understood
Aditi Bhattacharya
Reductionist vs integrative approach in biology
Subhash Chandra Lakhotia
Science education and research in 21st century India
L S Shashidhara
Teaching biology
L S Shashidhara
Scientist and teacher
Swati Patankar
Are we teaching biology well?
Subhash Chandra Lakhotia
- 2010
- 2009