Welcome!

We are ethnobiology educators.  Our mission is to help other ethnobiology instructors by providing a convenient location to find a variety of instructional materials for ethnobiology courses and curricula. All materials on our links are freely shared using an open-systems philosophy. We welcome additions to this collection, as well as its use.

The OSN project creates links to resources that are stored elsewhere, such as on university web servers and cloud-based resources.  This helps ensure that the most recent versions of the materials are available.

Peer reviews are available for many of the resources.  We also welcome additions to this set of reviews.

Participants at the 2012 OSN Workshop in Fort Worth, Texas.

Participating in the Open Science Network

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The Ethnobiology Focus

Our focus is on the scientific discipline of ethnobiology. Do you want to know more about this topic? Check the link for more information.

This link tells you how you can contribute links to resources which you would like to share on this site. Examples are links to course syllabi or a lesson plan for a laboratory exercise. Look at our existing resources (listed in the column on the right) to get ideas of what you might contribute to enhance this shared collection.

We can help if you have materials that you would like to share, but which are not accessible with a web link. Click on the link to see some self-help suggestions. If these are not adequate or appropriate, click on the link below to see how to contact people who can help.

Here is where you can find out more about us. This link also has contact information. Please join us if what we are doing matches your interests and needs.

Open Science Network Support

The primary support for the Open Science Network in Ethnobiology has come from the many individuals who have contributed their time, ideas and links to this effort.

We have also have major support, both financial and institutional, from the National Science Foundation, the Society for Economic Botany, the Botanical Research Institute of Texas and the University of Hawai`i.

These links provide information about ethnobiology activities at particular institutions. Most of these are academic institutions, but there are also botanical gardens, herbaria and other institutions at which there are ethnobiological activities.

We provide peer-reviewed modules that will increase the quality of ethnobiology instruction, as well as improve the efficiency in the development of  instructional materials.  The curriculum modules are each major content elements which are generally stand-alone units, such as video or PowerPoint presentations.

Some of the modules are organized into units that support a single course (e.g., all of the "lectures" for a course).  Other modules stand alone and are used as a supplement for a course (e.g., a demonstration on how to dye cloth with natural products).

These are materials which provide detailed information about individual instructional units (e.g., topics included in a lecture, worksheets, laboratory instructions).

The materials in this section contain items which relate to a single course. This includes the topics which are covered, readings and related study materials. Note that these are for an entire course (e.g., Introduction to Ethnobotany).

This section of the website has listings of courses which make up a program (e.g., Ethnobotany Minor). There are quite a few kinds of programs. These listing provide ideas on how topics can be woven together into something more than a single course.

There are a number of resources available which will help us understand and use new technology, alternative instructional strategies, requirements for successful assessment and a host of other things. Look for these types of resources on this link.