• Lots of turnover --> Issues with continuity

• Inexperienced --> Need to be shown hows and whys of data management

• Handwriting in notebooks

OSF provides a flexible framework for project management

• Provides data storage and management

• Continuity of techniques and project knowledge

Wiki panes are useful as notebooks for describing data and protocols

Reference panes make important papers part of the project

• Active learning or engaging the student to participate in the learning process aids in understanding and retention

  • Lab courses

  • POGIL or flipped classrooms: students work on a project to apply knowledge and content to demonstrate concept

• Promote critical thinking and adaptability --> Scientific process

• Teach students to communicate scientific material effectively

• Research project that integrates into the course curriculum to reinforce learning objectives

• Examples at JMU:

  • Intro Biology Lab sequence

  • Bacterial Discovery

  • Organic Chemistry Lab for Chemistry majors

• Lecture of 55 to 130 students with one/two instructor(s)

• ~70% students have no prior research experience

  • Ranges from 50 to 95%

• Mostly non-chemistry majors

  • Biology, Health Science, Biotechnology

• Diverse professional goals

  • ~1/3 to professional school, 1/3 graduate school, 1/3 job or other

• Large lecture section with no associated lab course

• Materials and infrastructure to facilitate student interactions and active learning

• Diverse student backgrounds, abilities, and interests

• Management of the student data

• Wanted students to think about biochemistry!

• Large lecture section with no associated lab course

  • POGIL-stylebased classroom activities and used Socrative to monitor students in real time and give feedback

• Materials and infrastructure to facilitate student interactions and active learning

  • Used Canvas to facilitate peer groups, Socrative to check answers, in-class activities

• Diverse student backgrounds, abilities, and interests

  • By lecturing less, I spent more time talking to students in small groups or one-on-one

• Management of the student data

  • Word --> Sharepoint/OneNote --> Open Science Framework

• Wanted students to think about biochemistry!

  • Course-based project connecting DNA sequence to protein structure/function

• Tried asking students to keep a notebook using Word/Docs --> :(

• Used JMU's access to Sharepoint and OneNote --> :(

  • ~10% of students could not get access to OneNote

  • Was a good solution otherwise

• Present solution is the Open Science Framework

Lecture based research project for biochemistry

OSF facilitates data management and storage

In the future, OSF will be the hub for the students working to learn and collaborate on their research project.

Compare assessment on students who have taken BIO140/150 experience to those who have not.

In groups we will:

1. Create a component for the data for each team in the Salmonella Isolate Data and Analysis Files component

   • Name the component after your isolate (example: DG7)

2. Within the new component, modify the home wiki page with basic information on your isolate

Throughout the workshop:

• Fill in additional components for new experiments and data

• Fork the notebook template to create a group notebook for methods and data

• Wikis can (should?) be used to indicate what is in each component section and highlight major findings