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Title: Charting a new vision: lessons on Vision & Change from a network of biology educators
ABSTRACT The 2011Vision & Changereport outlined several recommendations for transforming undergraduate biology education, sparking multiple pedagogical reform efforts. Among these was the Promoting Active Learning and Mentoring (PALM) network, an NSF-funded program that provided mentorship and training to instructors on implementing active learning in the classroom. Here, we provide a perspective on how members of the biology education community in PALM view the recommendations ofVision & Change, drawing upon our experiences both as members of PALM and as leaders of an associated project funded by another NSF grant that hosted PALM alumni at various conferences. These efforts have allowed us to gain insight into how our alumni think ofVision & Change, including how they interpret its recommendations, the challenges and opportunities that they view for implementing these recommendations, and the areas they see as critical to be addressed in future national reports for supporting undergraduate biology education. We synthesize these voices here, providing perspectives from a diverse group of biology instructors on what they think aboutVision & Change, and provide recommendations for the biology education community based upon these PALM community voices.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2223276 2223350
PAR ID:
10655206
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Editor(s):
Marshall, Pamela A
Publisher / Repository:
American Society for Microbiology
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education
Volume:
26
Issue:
1
ISSN:
1935-7877
Page Range / eLocation ID:
e00172-24
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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