Open Educational Resources (OER) and Research Impacts

This collection was created by Brown University's Engaged Scholarship and Broader Impacts Working Group (ESBI) to provide Brown University researchers with an online platform for preserving and publishing their open access STEM-related digital scholarship, Open Educational Resources (OERs), and Broader Impacts work. Items include open textbooks, lesson plans and curricula, software, animations and videos, policy documents, vocational training materials, and informal science and citizen science-oriented scholarship, among others. For support with deposit please email [email protected]

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"Brightness" and the Physics of Bioluminescent Light Production and Resonance Energy Transfer

Description:: This recorded lecture introduces students to the quantification of "brightness," ways to quantify and compare bioluminescent and fluorescent proteins, and the factors that influence Förster …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Shaner, Nathan (Author)
Subject:: Bioluminescence; undergraduate education; imaging; fluorescence; Fluorescent Proteins
Collection:: NeuroNex Technology Hub: Bioluminescence for Optimal Brain Control and Imaging; NeuroNex Educational and Engagement Materials; Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Advancing Research Impacts

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Acids and bases

Description:: The goal of this lesson is to introduce students to the chemistry of acids and bases. Students will be able to identify solutions which are …
Year:: 2011
Contributor:: Adetunji, Oludurotimi (creator); Science Center Outreach (program)
Collection:: Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Advancing Research Impacts

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Animal adaptations

Description:: Adaptations are the macroscopic building blocks of biological evolution. In this lesson, students will learn what adaptations are, how they occur, and why they are …
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Fernandopulle, Michael (creator); Brown Science Prep (program)
Collection:: Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Advancing Research Impacts

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Bioluminescence Activity Placemat

Description:: This double-sided placemat contains activities for students to complete as they learn about the creatures that produce bioluminescence and the differences between bioluminescence, fluorescence, and …
Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Berger-Gutierrez, Rebecca (Creator); Salem, Zara (Creator); Salem, Halle (Creator); Khan, Raisa (Creator)
Subject:: Broader Impacts; Bioluminescence; education; fluorescence; phosphorescence; outreach
Collection:: Open Educational Resources (OER) and Research Impacts; NeuroNex Technology Hub: Bioluminescence for Optimal Brain Control and Imaging; NeuroNex Educational and Engagement Materials

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Bioluminescence: Ideal Natural Engineering for Understanding the Dynamics that Create Behavior

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Description:: This recorded lecture introduces undergraduate students to the advantages of bioluminescence as an optical reporter of a chemical reaction and its use with optogenetics (BL-OG) …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Moore, Christopher I. (Author)
Subject:: Neuroscience; BL-OG; Bioluminescence; Behavior; Undergraduate Education
Collection:: NeuroNex Technology Hub: Bioluminescence for Optimal Brain Control and Imaging; NeuroNex Educational and Engagement Materials; Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Advancing Research Impacts

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BL-OG: Bridging Optogenetics and Chemogenetics through Bioluminescence

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Description:: This card was created to succinctly communicate the properties and function of bioluminescent-optogenetic (BL-OG) constructs.
Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Khan, Raisa (Creator)
Subject:: Broader Impacts; Bioluminescence; education; fluorescence; phosphorescence; outreach
Collection:: Open Educational Resources (OER) and Research Impacts; NeuroNex Technology Hub: Bioluminescence for Optimal Brain Control and Imaging; NeuroNex Educational and Engagement Materials

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Calcium — Not Too Little and Not Too Much

Description:: This recorded lecture introduces undergraduate students to calcium as a ubiquitous second messenger and a proxy for cellular activity. Students learn why calcium is unique, …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Lipscombe, Diane (Author)
Subject:: undergraduate education; calcium; Action Potentials; Cell Signalling
Collection:: NeuroNex Technology Hub: Bioluminescence for Optimal Brain Control and Imaging; NeuroNex Educational and Engagement Materials; Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Advancing Research Impacts

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Can RNA splicing errors cause disease?

Description:: What does an obsolete editing technique have to do with one third of all inherited human disease?
Year:: 2015
Contributor:: Adetunji, Oludurotimi (executive producer); Cox, Elizabeth (animator); Knoepfler, Alexandro (animator); Janssens, Arun (narrator); Cox, Elizabeth (writer); Adetunji, Oludurotimi (writer); Adetunji, Oludurotimi (editor); Fairbrother, William (writer); Fairbrother, William (editor); Fairbrother, William (consultant); Cox, Elizabeth (illustrator); Di Poi, Felipe (illustrator); Janssens, Arun (sound engineer); Bear, Podington (musician); Brown University Science Center (creator)
Genre:: animated cartoons
Subject:: RNA; Gene; Splicing; Genetic engineering; Biology; Genetics; Mutations; Ribosomes; Nucleus
Collection:: Open Educational Resources (OER) and Research Impacts; Brown Science Cartoons (SciToons)

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Carbon dioxide

Description:: The objective of this lesson is to learn what carbon dioxide is, how it is used, how it reacts with water, and its role in …
Year:: 2009
Contributor:: Brown Science Prep (program)
Collection:: Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Advancing Research Impacts

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Cashes Ledge: Jewel of the Gulf of Maine

Description:: Cashes Ledge is an underwater ridge jutting up from the Gulf of Maine continental shelf to within 40 feet of the surface. Located 80 miles …
Year:: 2016
Contributor:: Kovacs, Evan (Creator); Lamb, Robert (Creator); Witman, Jon (Creator)
Subject:: Broader Impacts; marine ecology; Gulf of Maine; Cashes Ledge
Collection:: Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Advancing Research Impacts; Brown University Open Data Collection; Biology and Medicine; Ecological and Evolutionary Biology

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Cashes Ledge: Jewel of the Gulf of Maine

Description:: Cashes Ledge is an underwater ridge jutting up from the Gulf of Maine continental shelf to within 40 feet of the surface. Located 80 miles …
Year:: 2016
Contributor:: Kovacs, Evan (Creator); Lamb, Robert (Creator); Witman, Jon (Creator)
Subject:: Broader Impacts; marine ecology; Gulf of Maine; Cashes Ledge
Collection:: Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Advancing Research Impacts; Brown University Open Data Collection; Biology and Medicine; Ecological and Evolutionary Biology

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Cellular metabolism

Description:: The objective of this lesson is to understand the aerobic and anaerobic metabolic pathways in the cell.
Year:: 2008
Contributor:: Brown Science Prep (program)
Collection:: Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Advancing Research Impacts

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Chemical equilibrium

Description:: The objective of this lesson is to understand how to measure concentrations and how to write basic chemical equations using stoichiometry
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Kim, Michelle (creator); Brown Science Prep (program)
Collection:: Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Advancing Research Impacts

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Chemical forces

Description:: The goal of this lesson is to introduce students to the basic principals of chemical structure and bonding. We aim to answer the following questions: …
Year:: 2011
Contributor:: Gould, Colin (creator); Mehta, Nihaal (creator); Brown Science Prep (program)
Collection:: Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Advancing Research Impacts

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Clinical Research for Medical Students

Description:: EPUB eBook Format (ISBN: 978-1-948459-02-0) and iBooks Author Format (ISBN: 978-1-948459-03-7) available for download below. The majority of medical students will participate in some form …
Year:: 2017
Contributor:: Barry, Brendan C. (Author)
Subject:: Clinical medicine--Research; Medical education
Collection:: Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Advancing Research Impacts; Brown University Student Publications; Warren Alpert Medical School Scholarly Concentrations Program Gallery of Scholarly Work

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Cold Light

Description:: This video was created as an educational tool to disambiguate bioluminescence, fluorescence, and phosphorescence.
Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Khan, Raisa (Creator)
Subject:: Broader Impacts; Bioluminescence; education; fluorescence; phosphorescence; outreach
Collection:: NeuroNex Technology Hub: Bioluminescence for Optimal Brain Control and Imaging; NeuroNex Educational and Engagement Materials; Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Advancing Research Impacts

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Cold Light (No Narration)

Description:: This video was created as an educational tool to disambiguate bioluminescence, fluorescence, and phosphorescence.
Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Khan, Raisa (Creator)
Subject:: Broader Impacts; Bioluminescence; education; fluorescence; phosphorescence; outreach
Collection:: NeuroNex Technology Hub: Bioluminescence for Optimal Brain Control and Imaging; NeuroNex Educational and Engagement Materials; Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Advancing Research Impacts

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Cold Light (No Narration)

Description:: This video was created as an educational tool to disambiguate bioluminescence, fluorescence, and phosphorescence.
Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Khan, Raisa (Creator)
Subject:: Broader Impacts; Bioluminescence; education; fluorescence; phosphorescence; outreach
Collection:: NeuroNex Technology Hub: Bioluminescence for Optimal Brain Control and Imaging; NeuroNex Educational and Engagement Materials; Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Advancing Research Impacts

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Collaborating with Students to Find and Evaluate Open Educational Resources in Engineering

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Description:: This paper originally appeared in the 2019 Proceedings of the Association for College and Research Libraries published by the American Library Association and presented at …
Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Evelyn, Sarah (Author); Kromer, John (Author)
Subject:: OER; Engineering Education; STEM; Open Educational Resources; teaching
Collection:: Brown University Library; Brown University Library Staff Scholarly Works; Open Educational Resources (OER) and Research Impacts

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Computer programming

Description:: "Following this lesson students will be able to write a basic program in Scratch"
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Gillani, Nabeel (creator); Learning Exchange (program)
Collection:: Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Advancing Research Impacts

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