Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-10-2025
Abstract
The 2011 Vision & Change report 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 of Vision & 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 of Vision & 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 about Vision & Change, and provide recommendations for the biology education community based upon these PALM community voices.
Recommended Citation
Hsu JL, Misra A, Wolyniak MJ, Goller CC, Mathews S, Swamy U, Newman DL, Moore ME. 0. Charting a new vision: lessons on Vision & Change from a network of biology educators. J Microbiol Biol Educ. 0:e00172-24. https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00172-24
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Comments
This article was originally published in Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education in 2025. https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00172-24