Skylight Development Grants Summer 2016 | UBC Skylight: Science Centre for Learning and Teaching

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UBC SKYLIGHT: Science Centre for Learning and Teaching

Principal Applicant	Department/Program	Project Title
Sunita Chowrira	Botany	Data Mining and Dissemination - BioFlex Project Wrap-up
Brett Couch	Botany	Evaluation of Learning Gains: Print vs. E-Books
Santokh Singh	Botany	Improving Student Learning in Plant Physiology labs by introducing New Research Projects on Plant Environmental Physiology and Plant Sustainability
Vanessa Auld	Zoology	Development of new modules to modernize Biology 331 (Developmental Biology)
Sarah Sherman	EOAS	Assessing learning gains and students' self-confidence with knowledge surveys
Sarah Sherman	EOAS	Increasing student proficiency in optical mineral identification

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Skylight: Science Centre for Learning and Teaching

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