Meeting Abstract
When creating new resources for teaching and learning biology, two huge problems immediately arise: What do students want to learn? and What do students already know? Here we describe an attempt to address these problems through a “Learning by Teaching” approach. Undergraduate and first year Master’s students volunteered to edit and illustrate an Open Textbook for their EvoDevo course or to write case-study modules for inclusion in the text. EvoDevo’s integrative nature and combination of philosophy and experimental approaches make it a natural choice for student contribution. To make these resources, students must think deeply about this complex field and consider how Evolution, Development, Genetics, Anatomy, and Physiology act together and on each other to produce life’s riotous diversity. The end product is a resource written at an undergraduate-appropriate level with approachable language, illustrations, and topics.
