Thinking about updating your genetics course? Join us at 1:00 ET on June 18 for a relaxed summer webinar with Jenny Knight, course director for Codon Learning’s genetics curriculum Principles of Genetics. She’ll share how her research on how students learn was woven into the course design and open the floor for a conversation about teaching genetics—what’s working, what’s challenging, and what could be next.
Ashley Rowland, Director of Customer Experience for Codon Learning, will follow up by demonstrating how Codon’s Principles of Genetics can help your students to actively engage in rounds of self testing while developing their metacognitive skills.
Can’t attend live? No problem! Register anyway, and we’ll send you the recording to watch at your convenience.
Dr. Jennifer Knight has been teaching biology courses at all levels in the Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado Boulder for over 20 years. Her work as a Biology Education Researcher has included developing concept assessments to diagnose student misunderstandings and measure learning gains, developing and facilitating workshops on scientific teaching (with NIST), and studying how students learn by engage in complex problem solving, reasoning, and self-regulation. She was a founding member of the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER), and its president (2019-2020). She is the course director of Codon Learning’s genetics curriculum: Principles of Genetics.
Dr. Ashley Rowland has been with Codon Learning from the start, helping to shape the platform from the ground up. As Director of Customer Experience, she works closely with instructors to design courses that drive positive educational outcomes and collaborates with product and content teams to continuously refine the platform based on instructor feedback and best practices. Ashley earned a PhD in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado Boulder and was a Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California Berkeley. Having navigated college as a first-generation student from a low-income household, Ashley cares deeply about creating opportunities for students of all backgrounds to succeed.