https://doi.org/10.36866/pn.97.6a

For several years, Society members have developed many digital teaching resources but we have not been able to find a mechanism for evaluating, managing, updating and distributing them. It became obvious very quickly that the Life Science Teaching Resource Community (LifeSciTRC) is the answer to this problem.

The LifeSciTRC is a dynamic digital repository managed by the American Physiological Society (APS) which provides teachers and lecturers with a comprehensive and diverse range of teaching aids aimed at students at different stages of their education.

Marsha Lakes Matyas, APS Director of Education Programs, says, ‘We are excited to welcome The Physiological Society as the newest LifeSciTRC partner, and look forward to collaborating in other activities as well.’

Other partner organisations include the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society, the Society for Developmental Biology, the American Association of Anatomists, and the Genetics Society of America.

As a part of this community, Society members can access a range of teaching resources that can be used in their entirety or adapted to specific requirements. In essence, if you need to deliver a new teaching activity, we would strongly recommend you explore the LifeSciTRC to investigate what is already available in your subject area. This can save you time and give you new ideas for activities.

Members of the partner organisations can also submit their own teaching resources for evaluation and review by The Society – if accepted, they will be uploaded for all to use. If you have any particularly useful resources, we would encourage you to submit them so that they will benefit the whole community.

Contributions from Society members will be marked with The Society’s logo, thereby establishing a community for members to use and share resources with each other. A set of FAQs for submission of teaching resources will be available via The Society’s website over the next few months.
Furthermore, we are also looking for interested members to act as referees for submissions to the LifeSciTRC. If you are interested, please contact Angela Breslin at education@physoc.org

In the meantime, please take the time to register as a member of the LifeSciTRC, which is free, and explore the repository to find out which activities might be useful for your teaching, outreach or public engagement activities.

http://www.lifescitrc.org/