Dr. Richard Shingles is a faculty lecturer in Biology and Curriculum Specialist at Johns Hopkins University. Instrumental in the redesign of the General Biology course, he supports and counsels the faculty, students, and developers of science courses. Having taught undergraduate and graduate students as well as having earned a BEd degree in science education after earning a Ph.D. in Biology, Dr. Shingles is well-versed in innovative pedagogical approaches. Dr. Shingles is also the Director of the TA Training Institute at Johns Hopkins University.

Classes Taught

Fall Semester

General Biology I (020.151)
Mentoring in Biology (020.441)

Intersession

MCAT Review (914.502)
Ecuador and Galapagos Islands: Tropical Biology & Evolution (290.236)

Spring Semester

General Biology II (020.152)
Mentoring in Biology (020.442)
Preparation for University Teaching (AS 360.781, EN 500.781)

Summer Semester

General Biology I (020.151)
General Biology II (020.152)

Selected Educational Publications

Ahmed Ibrahim, Kelly Clark, Michael J. Reese, Richard Shingles (2020) The effects of a teaching development institute for early career researchers on their intended teaching strategies, course design, beliefs about instructors’ and students’ knowledge, and instructional self-efficacy: The case of the Teaching Institute at Johns Hopkins University.  Studies in Educational Evaluation 64: 100836

Barmaki R, Yu K, Pearlman R, Shingles R, Bork F, Osgood GM, Navab N. Enhancement of Anatomical Education Using Augmented Reality: An Empirical Study of Body Painting. Anat Sci Educ. 2019 Jan 16. doi: 10.1002/ase.1858. [Epub ahead of print]

Maldarelli, G.A., Hartmann, E., Cummings, P.J., Horner, R.D., Obom, K.M., Shingles,    R., and Pearlman, R.S. (2009) Virtual Lab Demonstrations Improve Students’ Mastery of Basic Biology Laboratory Techniques. JMBE 10: 51-56

Sandra G. Porter, Joseph Day, Richard E. McCarty, Allen Shearn, Richard Shingles, Charlotte Mulvihill, Linnea Fletcher, Stephanie Murphy and Rebecca Pearlman (2007) Exploring DNA Structure With Cn3D. CBE-Life Sciences Education 6 65-73

Richard Shingles, Theron Feist and Rae Brosnan (2006) The Biomes of Homewood: Interactive Map Software. Bioscene 31: 17-24

Vicky Hallett (2005) Teaching with Tech. U.S. News & World Report 139: 54-58

Douglas M. Fambrough, Rebecca Pearlman, Richard Shingles, and Rae Brosnan (2005) Points of View: A Survey of Survey Courses: Are They Effective? Cell Biology Education 4: 123-137

Selected Scientific Publications

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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

The mission of the Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation (CTEI) is to partner with faculty to extend their instructional impact by connecting digital technologies and innovative teaching strategies. Working under an HHMI grant to Johns Hopkins University to improve undergraduate science education we have incorporated a number of new technologies in the classrooms. These include:

In-Class Voting: In use by many higher education institutions, in-class voting technology enables faculty to poll large numbers of students on a variety of topics: from their understanding of the previous day’s readings to their understanding of lecture material presented in class. Poll results, which appear via a histogram in a matter of seconds, indicate whether or not students grasp the material.

Tablet PCs: Tablet PCs offer the functionality of a traditional laptop computer with one addition: the ability to “write” on a touch sensitive screen. This functionality can replicate writing on the chalkboard or overhead, but allows the instructor to save and share their notes with students after class.  Tablet PCs can also be used to annotate presentation slides or to take notes during classroom observations.

Mobile Computing: The initial grant proposal suggested a mobile solution to transform traditional lecture halls into “studio” classrooms, eliminating the need for architectural redesign and enabling universities to employ the “studio” instructional format in all natural science courses. Hopkins is testing the mobile studio science approach initially in physics.

Interactive Map: The Johns Hopkins CTEI developed a web-based map authoring tool that faculty use to implement digital field assignments in their courses. “Digital field assignments” are course assessments in which students collect and analyze data from the field using digital technologies.