Biology by Dyer & McGill gives students the most integrated, inclusive, and interactive approach to learning biology.
Dyer and McGill understand how to reach biology students and have designed Biology to be easy to implement. Gaël McGill applies his expertise in visualization design and interactive pedagogy to the text and multimedia, while Jayme Dyer brings her passion for biology education and extensive teaching experience to make the content accessible and relevant to all students. Together, they have created a dynamic digital learning experience that empowers more students to succeed and thrive in biology.
Integrated
- A narrative-driven approach makes biology compelling and relevant for students. Rather than present scientific topics in a discrete, encyclopedic way, the authors organize chapters into nine modular narrative units that help students integrate concepts across the discipline and apply them to the real world.
- A focus on core concepts and competencies prepares students to succeed at the next levels of their learning. Biology centers the core concepts and skills from Vision and Change, with a focus on scientific reasoning and engaging with real data.
- Learning through repetition builds mastery of key concepts. The narrative approach revisits key topics, such as natural selection and protein structure, in novel contexts across units to reinforce conceptual understanding.
Inviting
- An approachable voice makes the course material accessible and inviting for all students. A conversational style of writing makes the text approachable; jargon is introduced judiciously, and data figures are carefully explained to scaffold data and visual literacy.
- The text helps students see biology as a diverse, dynamic field where they belong. Unit- and chapter-level narratives spotlight people and scientists from diverse backgrounds and explicitly address scientific misconceptions that can reinforce social inequities.
Interactive
- Not your average ebook: Cutting-edge multimedia in a unified digital environment creates an engaging, active learning experience for students. The interactive ebook seamlessly integrates stunning and varied multimedia—such as interactives, animations, and videos incorporating real data—to support the diverse ways students learn best.
- Listen, read, or watch: Meeting the needs of today's diverse learners, the text can be accessed in written, audio, and video formats. Since different students learn best through different media, the interactive ebook will include innovative "chapter in motion" video clips that use the chapter text as the script.
- Intuitive and flexible assessment tools scaffold student learning before, during, and after class. Highlights of the digital assessment package include:
- interactive questions throughout each chapter with immediate feedback;
- a robust online homework platform that is easily assignable by instructors and that scaffolds students’ integration of core concepts and competencies;
- an instructor ebook that incorporates a robust library of relevant active-learning activities to support deeper learning in the classroom.
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