Hsu Jeremy L, Misra Anjali, Wolyniak Michael J, Goller Carlos C, Mathews Stephanie, Swamy Uma, Newman Dina L, Moore Michael E
Schmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University, Orange, California, USA.
Department of Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA.
J Microbiol Biol Educ. 2025 Apr 24;26(1):e0017224. doi: 10.1128/jmbe.00172-24. Epub 2025 Jan 10.
The 2011 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 , 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 , 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 , and provide recommendations for the biology education community based upon these PALM community voices.
2011年的报告概述了多项关于转变本科生物学教育的建议，引发了多项教学改革努力。其中包括促进主动学习与指导（PALM）网络，这是一个由美国国家科学基金会资助的项目，为教师提供在课堂上实施主动学习的指导和培训。在此，我们从PALM生物学教育社区成员的角度，阐述他们对[具体报告]建议的看法，这些看法基于我们作为PALM成员以及由另一项美国国家科学基金会资助项目的负责人的经历，该项目在各种会议上接待了PALM校友。这些努力使我们深入了解了校友们对[具体报告]的看法，包括他们如何解读其建议、他们认为实施这些建议所面临的挑战和机遇，以及他们认为在未来支持本科生物学教育的国家报告中需要重点解决的领域。我们在此综合这些观点，呈现来自不同生物学教师群体对[具体报告]的看法，并根据PALM社区的这些观点为生物学教育社区提供建议。
