Science Collaborator: Open Participatory Learning Infrastructure for Education (SCOPE)

As an innovative approach to faculty professional development, SCOPE was an NSF-supported exploratory project led by BioQuest that investigated the development and use of Problem Spaces with respect to 1) their utility as a focus for faculty teaching scholarship; and, 2) their potential impacts on students' biological problem solving skills. Introductory biology faculty from disparate institutional settings collaboratively developed online curricular resources and strategies to support students' work on contemporary scientific investigations.