While it is essential for life science students to be trained in modern techniques and approaches, rapidly developing, interdisciplinary fields such as bioinformatics present distinct challenges to undergraduate educators. In particular, many educators lack training in new fields, and high‐quality teaching and learning materials may be sparse. To address this challenge with respect to bioinformatics, the Network for the Integration of Bioinformatics into Life Science Education (NIBLSE), in partnership with Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES), developed incubators, a novel collaborative process for the development of open educational resources (OER). Incubators are short‐term, online communities that refine unpublished teaching lessons into more polished and widely usable learning resources. The resulting products are published and made freely available in the NIBLSE Resource Collection, providing recognition of scholarly work by incubator participants. In addition to producing accessible, high‐quality resources, incubators also provide opportunities for faculty development. Because participants are intentionally chosen to represent a range of expertise in bioinformatics and pedagogy, incubators also build professional connections among educators with diverse backgrounds and perspectives and promote the discussion of practical issues involved in deploying a resource in the classroom. Here we describe the incubator process and provide examples of beneficial outcomes. Our experience indicates that incubators are a low cost, short‐term, flexible method for the development of OERs and professional community that could be adapted to a variety of disciplinary and pedagogical contexts.

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孵化器：建立社区网络并开发开放的教育资源，将生物信息学融入生命科学教育

虽然生命科学专业的学生必须接受现代技术和方法的培训，但快速发展的跨学科领域（如生物信息学）对本科教育工作者提出了独特的挑战。尤其是许多教育工作者缺乏新领域的培训，高质量的教学材料可能稀缺。为了应对生物信息学方面的这一挑战，将生物信息学融入生命科学教育的网络 (NIBLSE) 与定量本科生物教育与综合 (QUBES) 合作开发了孵化器，这是一种用于发展开放教育的新型协作过程资源 (OER)。孵化器是短期的在线社区，可将未发布的教学课程提炼为更精致且更广泛可用的学习资源。由此产生的产品在 NIBLSE 资源集中出版和免费提供，为孵化器参与者的学术工作提供认可。除了提供可访问的高质量资源外，孵化器还为教师发展提供了机会。因为参与者被有意选择来代表生物信息学和教育学方面的一系列专业知识，孵化器还在具有不同背景和观点的教育者之间建立专业联系，并促进对在课堂上部署资源所涉及的实际问题的讨论。在这里，我们描述了孵化器过程并提供了有益结果的示例。我们的经验表明，孵化器是一种低成本、短期、