Lessons from a successful flip with Robin Dunkin
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Thursday, October 13, 12:00-1:00pm, Biomed 300 Host: Susy Honig |
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Description: Robin will discuss the process and planning that went into flipping bio 20B, specific examples of activities, how the teaching team addressed equity and inclusion, and what what lessons the teaching team learned about what worked and what didn't work. Robin will also discuss how the activities and particular elements from the active learning version are being reincorporated into the large lecture course.
Robin's bio: Robin Dunkin did her undergraduate work at UCSC in marine biology and then completed a master’s degree in Biology at the University of California at Wilmington where she studied thermoregulation and energetics in bottlenose dolphins. Robin returned to UCSC to complete her Ph.D. with Dr. Terrie Williams where she ventured onto land and applied her interest in thermoregulation and physiological ecology to African and Asian elephants. Her work focused on developing population level models predicting the movement patterns of these large animals based on empirically measured physiological data. Robin then began an Office of Naval Research funded postdoctoral fellowship through NOAA which aimed at understanding the energetic consequences of increasing anthropogenic sound in the oceans. Robin also runs the Marine Mammal Stranding Program at Long Marine Lab. Since 2012, Robin has been a lecturer in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department where she has taught the introductory physiology and development of plants and animals course for majors. Robin is keenly committed to teaching and most recently has been working with the HHMI team at UCSC to redesign the introductory STEM courses for majors using evidence based teaching methods.
