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Instructional Materials to Promote Transfer of Biology Core Concept Knowledge Across Scales and Sub-disciplines
Instructional Materials to Promote Transfer of Biology Core Concept Knowledge Across Scales and Sub-disciplines
Join a community of biology educators to create Core Concept Teaching Tools
Join a community of biology educators to create Core Concept Teaching Tools
The AAAS Vision and Change (V&C) report identified five core concepts in biology and called on undergraduate biology instructors to use these concepts to connect student learning across biological scales and subdisciplines to prepare them to address complex interdisciplinary problems. It has been relatively straight-forward for instructors to integrate, teach, and assess knowledge in sub-disciplinary contexts, but teaching students to make connections or transfer their core concept knowledge has proven challenging. Tools to teach students to transfer and apply core concept knowledge across scales and sub-disciplines are needed.
This National Science Foundation funded project is bringing college biology educators with expertise across biological sub-disciplines together to develop and publish a collection of Core Concept Teaching Tools (CCTTs) that guide students to identify and apply the core concepts across scales and subdisciplines.
Project Overview
Project Overview
Two cohorts of 20-25 biology educators will form a community of educators in a year-long professional development experience to create and publish Core Concept Teaching Tools (CCTTs) that address the core concepts across scales and sub-disciplines. Each cohort will participate in two in-person summer workshops: a CCTT development workshop at the beginning of their experience and a CourseSource writing workshop at the end. They will collaborate online during the academic year to pilot test, evaluate, and iteratively revise their CCTTs. The first cohort will connect with the second cohort half-way through the project during their workshops in the same week in Summer 2 (2025).
For more information, visit our Workshops & Cohort Activities Page.
Collaboration with CourseSource
Collaboration with CourseSource
CourseSource, established in 2015, is a journal, an open educational resource (OER) repository, and a professional development system all in one. All CourseSource articles are peer-reviewed, aligned with V&C core concepts and competencies, and linked to learning goals and objectives provided by biology professional societies. All participants will submit their Teaching Tools with evaluation data collected as part of this project for publication in CourseSource.
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