The ATBC pleased to announce it is part of the NSF-funded OCELOTS Network. OCELOTS which is an acronym for Online Content for Experiential Learning of Tropical Systems, brings together together tropical ecology researchers, active learning pedagogy specialists, software developers, and media specialists, to create an open-access, online resource library of learning modules in tropical ecology. The goal of these modules is to spark excitement in undergraduate biology courses by broadening cultural and geographic perspectives, enhancing principle-based reasoning and quantitative skills in ecology, and changing the way that students learn biology. OCELOTS modules are hosted on the Gala Platform.
ATBC will be working with OCELOTS to organize workshops that enable network participants to bring tropical biology into the undergraduate biology curriculum in an accessible way by creating innovative, interactive teaching materials and developing the means for sharing these materials so that they can be easily adapted around the world. To view previous ATBC-OCELOTS webinars, and for more information, please visit the OCELOTS homepage.