Outcomes of networking: RCN-UBE: promoting concept-driven teaching strategies in biochemistry and molecular biology through concept assessments (618.24)

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology instructors like all higher education faculty members, face challenges of becoming more effective instructors. They have very few opportunities or time to share their professional lives with others in education. However, when one collaborates in BMB research, there is always communication between scientists: exchanging information; collaborating on projects; and disseminating results. Therefore, why not use the same type of networking to share pedagogical knowledge? In addition to reporting outcomes of the RCN sessions at the Seattle Education meeting, this poster will describe an effective social networking which began in 2010 supported by a grant from the NSF (Undergraduate Biology Education track in the Research Coordination Network program) "Promoting Concept Driven Teaching Strategies in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology through Concept Assessments. "The social network is effective because the project steering committee monitor the way that individuals are situated...