We’re aware of a number of courses at college and universities around the world that have used our posts as course material. But I suspect there are many more we don’t know about. We like to know about this just because it helps us make the case to our employers and funding agencies that our blogging is worthwhile. So if you’re teaching or taking a course that uses our posts, can you please let us know in the comments? Again, this isn’t because you need our permission or anything, it’s just for our own information. Thanks! 🙂
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You already know about mine, but for the sake of completeness I’ll post it here as well. I’m using your talk on the rationale of scientific blogging and other related posts to support our Masters students on a module where they set up their own blogs. I also point them towards a couple of my favourite posts from the blog as examples of best practice.
Hi Jeremy,
Last year, I suggested your posts on fluctuation-mediated coexistence as supplementary reading in a final year undergrad/Masters subject that is basically an introduction to theoretical population biology. While I lecture on the storage effect, the topic isn’t covered in the texts, and Chesson’s Annual Reviews paper on coexistence is a bit too heavy going for many of my students (and the primary literature doubly so). I did this again this year, so will poll the students at the end of semester to see if anyone made use of them.
For the record: via Twitter, Eryn McFarlane uses a post of ours in a course at “UU” (? I guess that’s Utrecht University)
She’s upstairs from me at Uppsala University 🙂
Jeremy et al. I am currently referring to the dynamic ecology site for zombie ideas and your older posts on r and K selection, Great stuff! I encourage my students to check the blog each day for classroom discussion. Meg’s ecology video post has been a big hit as well.
Is the IDH a Zombie Idea? Still prevalent in Tropical Ecology (and even if not useful anymore should be taught as a concept that launched much research, IMO).
brunalab.org/wis3434/2014/09/02/zombie-ideas-the-intermediate-disturbance-hypothesis/
I am teaching a senior level population ecology class within the Fish and Wildlife department at the University of Idaho. I have recently used some of Brian’s material on the tradeoffs of modeling detection probabilities.
Hi Jeremy, you already know about mine. I link to your zombie ideas/IDH and others in the coexistence section of my upper-level undergraduate ecology course.
I’ve definitely sent your posts about Statistical Machismo around to my Data Analysis class, although have yet to make it a required assigment.
Hi Jeremy,
Stephen Bonser and I used your zombie intermediate disturbance hypothesis post as the first reading (and core content for the first lecture) in our third year plant ecology course at the university of New South Wales for three years. Our emphasis is on critically assessing ideas, so this post was perfect for us.
I recommend reading this blog, and also use some of the posts in “Theoretical ecology” course for master students I give in Estonian University of Life Sciences.
I give the whole blog a shout out in both First year undergrad and Masters level courses at Swansea University.
Just for the record: We’re getting a bunch of visits from the website for Methods in Experimental Ecology (PCB 6466) at Univ. of Central Florida (http://jenkins.cos.ucf.edu/59-2/classes/pcb-6466-methods-in-experimental-ecology-fall-2014/), apparently due to their link to Meg’s recent post on interpreting ANOVA.
For the record, we’re getting visits from the Blackboard site associated with a course at U of Saskatchewan (can’t tell which).
That would be my graduate stats course looking at the post on statistical machismo. Glad to hear my students are doing the suggested readings! That post was a nice followup to my general linear model module.
Well, so far two of them have done the reading. 🙂
Thanks for letting us know what course it is, hope the class goes well.
For the record, we’re getting visits from the website of a course at Univ. of Regina (can’t tell which course).
For the record, got a bunch of views today from a course website at Colorado State (can’t tell which course).
For the record, we’re getting some views from a course website at Guelph.
We’re getting some views from the course website of EDHI 9040 (University of Georgia Graduate School course on Using Technology in the College Classroom).
We’re getting a few views from a course website at Central Washington. Can’t tell which course.
Via Twitter (university unspecified, unfortunately):
UPDATE: James Cook University, Australia
We’re getting views from a Blackboard site from Sewanee, can’t tell which course.
And again this term.
We’ve gotten several views today from a course website at Occidental College (can’t tell which course).
Oh, and from a course website at New Mexico State.
We got about two dozen visits today from a course website at U of Oklahoma. Can’t tell which course.
(Note from Jeremy: comment moved here the “Best Of” page):
This comment is to say thank you. I am teaching an online-only Community Ecology course this semester. The course has not been taught here for over 10 years, so I am continually developing and revising content as I go for an online audience, while hoping I’m doing a good job for the students. This entire blog and the video links provided are extremely helpful – much appreciated!
Cheers,
Nancy S.
Aquatic ecologist and chief cookie-maker
Streamline Consulting
Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
We’re getting views from a “discussion topic” section of a course website at Wisconsin. Can’t tell which course.
ConBio at Columbia
Haywood Community College. Can’t tell which course.
Murray State
University of Montana
Florida International University
Bunch of views today from NUI Galway.
University of Central Florida.
University of New England. Applied Research Skills in Environmental and Rural Science. Wonder which post they’re sending students to. I’m guessing one of Brian’s statistical posts, or maybe Meg’s post on interpreting ANOVA interaction terms?
University of Regina
General Ecology at Penn State is basing an entire lecture on Brian’s “pizza diversity” post:
http://sites.psu.edu/ecology463/
Ecology 8000 at UGA is using my recent post on strong inference: http://courses.ecology.uga.edu/ecol8000-fall2016/2016/08/18/check-out-jeremy-foxs-blog-about-strong-inference-in-ecology/
We’re getting visits originating from a course website at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in India.
Yes, I use many of your posts mainly in two courses at the Graduate School in Ecology of the Federal University of Minas Gerais: Scientific Method and Field Ecology (https://cursodecampoufmg.wordpress.com). Thank you very much!
Thanks, glad you find our posts useful!
I’m using several posts again as part of our discussions about experimental design and statistics in a senior capstone course at Sewanee for Exology and Biodiversity majors. It’s great for the students to hear or read different perspectives on some of these topics.
Thanks for this!
Queen Mary University of London lists Dynamic Ecology (and various other blogs) as part of the recommended reading for undergraduate Biological Sciences students:
http://qmplus.qmul.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3341
PCB 6466, Methods in Experimental Ecology. It’s my “obstacles to strong inference” post, surprisingly. Not the first post of ours I’d expect to crop up in a stats & experimental design course, but we’ll take it. 🙂
University of Nebraska BIO S809 (“Professionalism”) is using our post on “perfecting the elevator pitch”.