Please join us on December 12th at 3pm EASTERN for a roundtable discussion with three biology education researchers who have used Codon Learning’s platform from its inchoate beginnings: Jennifer Knight (University of Colorado Boulder), Lisa McDonnell (University of California San Diego), and Lisa Limeri (Texas Tech University). They will share:
How they have used the platform to add structure to their courses;
How they present Codon to their students to get buy-in;
How they have collected data with Codon’s platform to study students' usage of evidence-based practices such as self-testing.
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.
Lisa McDonnell has been a teaching professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of California, San Diego, for eight years. Her work as a Biology Education Researcher has included investigating student problem solving in genetics, the effects of jargon on learning, how students develop scientific arguments, and most recently on student uses of study strategies.
Lisa Limeri’s lab draws on lessons from social psychology, educational psychology, and STEM education fields to study and improve undergraduate biology education. They focus on students' and instructors' beliefs about abilities, how to measure these beliefs, and how they impact well-being, persistence, and success in science. The lab works to identify instructional strategies for building supportive and positive classroom climates to foster student resilience and success.