Turning campus dirt into communal garden plots transforms universities into hubs of positive environmental change from the ground up.
Tag - Teaching
Alun Salt
Can field botany be effectively taught as a distance course?
COVID-19 forced many academics to teach remotely; for field botany this required a complete rethink of how such a course could be taught.
William Salter
Finding Meaning in the Undergraduate Research Experience
Meet them where they’re at, and show them they’re making an impact, say speakers.
Erin Zimmerman
BioGO, a treasure hunt to teach biology
It's hard for students to do their own thing on an introductory course, when you have an intake of hundreds. The easy way is to rely on lectures, but at the Université catholique de Louvain, they do things differently.
Guillaume Lobet
Charlotte Descamps
The Big Botany Challenge – promoting passion for plants in our schools!
Jonathan Mitchley on a symposium coming to Reading University in November to help fight plant blindness.
Guest Author
How hard is it to use plant computational models? Ask our students!
How scary are plant models? Students at Université catholique de Louvain have been finding out.
International Women’s Day 2017: “Diversity makes my job enjoyable”
For International Women's Day 2017, we asked plant biologist Dr Zoë Popper to write about a typical day in her working life. Here, she reflects on the importance of diversity in her job.
Zoë Popper
All’s fir in love and war
Nigel Chaffey discovers there is a fountain of youth, but only if you're a firebug.
Nigel Chaffey
For He’s A Jolly Good (Senior) Fellow
When I started my PhD I thought about research. In the UK there are no lectures for PhD students, it’s purely about the thesis. It is perfectly feasible to leave a UK university completely ignorant of anything to...
Science teaching resource
Relatively new to me – so maybe new to some of my devoted legion of readers (many of whom may be involved in teaching science, plant or otherwise) and therefore worthy of sharing – is news of the Understanding Science...
That first University lecture on biological sciences
What to tell new Biological Science students in their first lecture? We are drowning in high-quality information, but need to teach how to find and evaluate information, and what to do with it. Social media now plays a...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
A new Creative Commons search for botany photos on Flickr
We changed the template we use for AoB Blog to HTML5 last week. We’re still using similar CSS, so there’s not a huge change in how the site looks, but there is a big change in how it is put together. It...
