Jeremy Hsu (@hsubox.bsky.social)

Are you a biology educator? Check out our new paper, Charting a new vision: Lessons on Vision & Change from a network of biology educators! We describe the conversations we've had as members of the Promoting Active Learning and Mentoring (PALM) Network 1/5 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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Charting a new vision: lessons on Vision & Change from a network of biology educators | Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education The release of the 2011 Vision & Change report was a watershed moment for the undergraduate life science education community. The report, a product of some of this community’s intellectual leaders, called for the transformation of undergraduate biology education by incorporating a student-centered model of education based on active learning techniques and getting students to think and act as “real scientists” (Box 1). The past 13 years have seen significant progress towards the widespread adoption of this goal, with many individual instructors and entire departments working to bring their pedagogical practices in line with the goals set out by the 2011 report, while maintaining the unique character of their individual classrooms. Vision & Change has also sparked the development of several organizations and networks devoted to facilitating the spread of pedagogical reform as well as initiatives sponsored by life science professional societies to make Vision & Change recommendations accessible to their members. https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jmbe.00172-24