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Encouragement for Faculty to Implement Vision and Change
The seminal report Vision and Change outlined improvements necessary for undergraduate biology courses to accomplish widely recognized learning objectives. Over the past 8 years, we have developed a two-semester introductory biology course that incorporates the core concepts and competencies recomme...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5132381/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27810871 http://dx.doi.org/10.1187/cbe.16-03-0127 |
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author | Harvey, Caylyn Eshleman, Kristen Koo, Kyosung Smith, Kevin G. Paradise, Christopher J. Campbell, A. Malcolm |
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description | The seminal report Vision and Change outlined improvements necessary for undergraduate biology courses to accomplish widely recognized learning objectives. Over the past 8 years, we have developed a two-semester introductory biology course that incorporates the core concepts and competencies recommended in Vision and Change. Using published research on how students learn, we focused our efforts on three main areas of change: pedagogy, course content, and technology. We introduced active-learning strategies to improve our classroom environments, wrote an e-textbook that provides students with the tools they need to construct their own knowledge, and employed an online learning hub to assist students who needed extra support. The redesigned courses have been well received by students, and we have seen good student learning outcomes. The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate to faculty that Vision and Change’s recommendations are feasible and students welcome the improvements. |
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spelling | pubmed-51323812016-12-06 Encouragement for Faculty to Implement Vision and Change Harvey, Caylyn Eshleman, Kristen Koo, Kyosung Smith, Kevin G. Paradise, Christopher J. Campbell, A. Malcolm CBE Life Sci Educ Essay The seminal report Vision and Change outlined improvements necessary for undergraduate biology courses to accomplish widely recognized learning objectives. Over the past 8 years, we have developed a two-semester introductory biology course that incorporates the core concepts and competencies recommended in Vision and Change. Using published research on how students learn, we focused our efforts on three main areas of change: pedagogy, course content, and technology. We introduced active-learning strategies to improve our classroom environments, wrote an e-textbook that provides students with the tools they need to construct their own knowledge, and employed an online learning hub to assist students who needed extra support. The redesigned courses have been well received by students, and we have seen good student learning outcomes. The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate to faculty that Vision and Change’s recommendations are feasible and students welcome the improvements. American Society for Cell Biology 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5132381/ /pubmed/27810871 http://dx.doi.org/10.1187/cbe.16-03-0127 Text en © 2016 C. Harvey et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2016 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0). “ASCB®” and “The American Society for Cell Biology®” are registered trademarks of The American Society for Cell Biology. |
spellingShingle | Essay Harvey, Caylyn Eshleman, Kristen Koo, Kyosung Smith, Kevin G. Paradise, Christopher J. Campbell, A. Malcolm Encouragement for Faculty to Implement Vision and Change |
title | Encouragement for Faculty to Implement Vision and Change |
title_full | Encouragement for Faculty to Implement Vision and Change |
title_fullStr | Encouragement for Faculty to Implement Vision and Change |
title_full_unstemmed | Encouragement for Faculty to Implement Vision and Change |
title_short | Encouragement for Faculty to Implement Vision and Change |
title_sort | encouragement for faculty to implement vision and change |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5132381/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27810871 http://dx.doi.org/10.1187/cbe.16-03-0127 |
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