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Improving student understanding of the fossil record

A Scholarship of Teaching and Learning approach

Purpose

This repository documents a study to be carried out at Utrecht University in the Paleontology - fauna course (GEO2 - 1215) for BSc in Geosciences programme, taking place in 2024. The study will investigate how the interactive application DarwinCAT improves student understanding of the fossil record. The repository contains the instructions for the students (which are a modified version of the Open Educational Resource written for teaching with DarwinCAT).

Repository structure

  • Instructions for students
    • Task_1.qmd
    • Task_2.qmd

How to use?

Text and presentation files are provided as Quarto files. This is an open source publishing format based on markdown. Quarto files can be edited using text editors and IDEs such as R Studio and rendered to any format: docx, pdf, html. You can preview the contents of the OER directly on GitHub in files with .md extension.

If you would like to edit the OER and export it e.g. to Word or PDF, you can do it in two ways:

First, clone the repository.

1. **With R Studio**

Open the file in R Studio, set the following line to your preferred format, e.g.:

```         
format: pdf
```

And click `Render`.

2. **With Quarto CLI interface**

Change the line as above using any text editor and use Quarto CLI to render it:

```         
quarto render
```

Authors

Niklas Hohmann

Utrecht University

email: n.h.hohmann [at] uu.nl

Web page: www.uu.nl/staff/NHohmann

ORCID: 0000-0003-1559-1838

Emilia Jarochowska

Utrecht University

email: e.b.jarochowska [at] uu.nl

Web page: www.uu.nl/staff/EBJarochowska

ORCID: 0000-0001-8937-9405

Copyright

Copyright 2024 Utrecht University

License

All content in this repository is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Funding information

Funded by the European Union (ERC, MindTheGap, StG project no 101041077). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. European Union and European Research Council logos

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