In this short video, Dr. Jasmine Donkoh interviews Dr. Scott Freeman (University of Washington) about:

• the value of lesson-level learning objectives;

• the NSF study Nationally endorsed learning objectives to improve course design in introductory biology recently published in PLOS ONE (Hennessey and Freeman, 2025);

• and she brings in Dr. Alexa Clemmons to show how Codon’s platform can help students develop stronger metacognitive skills using lesson level learning objectives.