Vision and Change (V&C) in Undergraduate Biology Education Follow-Up

2009年，美国科学促进会（AAAS）举办了一次研讨会/会议，其中包括全国生物大学和学院教师的代表性部分（共500名与会者），讨论了根据学科本身的巨大变化，我们需要改变生物本科教育的方式。 这次会议产生了2011年出版物，生物本科教育的愿景和变化：行动呼吁，到目前为止，已分发给6000多人和一个网页，有大约5,000次点击。 该出版物的基本大纲和一般内容反映了2009年会议的讨论情况，实际上是由一批与会者编写的。 这次会议及其随后的研究结果的传播得益于国家卫生研究所、霍华德休斯医学研究所、国家科学院以及国家科学基金会内生物学和教育与人力资源局代表的支持。 目前的项目是对最初工作的后续，并满足了与会者的要求，以确定社区对会议及其出版物（包括印刷品和网络）的响应。 美国农业部的代表已经加入了计划这次会议的小组。智力优点：这个项目涉及生物界的很大一部分。 它关注的是如何发现变化发生在生物学本科教育，并涵盖了这样的主题：教师，高等教育机构和专业协会做了什么，以响应广泛的呼吁改变;这些行动的结果是什么变化;这些结果是如何记录的;并且改变的单位包括不仅仅是一个或两个教员，涉及一个部门或一组部门在一个协调的努力，以改变课程内和整个部门的教学方法。 这类信息可以为有兴趣描述学术界变革努力的教育研究人员提供有用的基础，并为感兴趣的教师和机构提供如何在学科教学中充分采用新方法的信息。 更广泛的影响：机构的广度，生物学领域，以及所包括的教师讲这个项目的更广泛的影响。 此外，AAAS服务于所有STEM学科，因此这一努力的宣传可能会导致其他学科尝试类似的努力来改善他们的本科教育方法。 最初的努力已经引起了工程界的兴趣。 事实上，最近发表的努力，由美国医学院（关于医学预科和医学生的准备）和教育考试服务（关于AP生物学）反映的关注和建议，在原来的愿景和变化出版物提高了社会的兴趣，在这个开创性的会议的结果。

In 2009 the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) held a workshop/meeting that included a representative segment of the nation's biology university and college faculty (500 attendees in all) in a discussion of the need for change in the way we approach biology undergraduate education in light of the vast changes in the discipline itself. That meeting resulted in a 2011 publication, Vision and Change in Biology Undergraduate Education: A Call for Action, that has, so far, been distributed to more than 6000 people and a web page that has had about 5,000 hits. The essential outline and general contents of the publication reflect the discussions at the 2009 meeting and were, in fact, written by a consortium of attendees. That meeting and the subsequent dissemination of its findings benefitted from the support of representatives from the National Institute of Health, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the National Academy, and the Directorates of Biology and of Education and Human Resources within NSF. The current project is a follow up to the initial effort and fulfills a request by meeting attendees to determine the community's response to the meeting and its publications (both in print and on the web). Representatives of the United States Department of Agriculture have joined the group planning this meeting.Intellectual Merit: This project involves a large segment of the biology community. It is concerned with discovering how change occurs within biology undergraduate education and covers such topics as: what have faculty, institutions of higher education, and professional societies done in response to the widespread call for change; what were the outcomes of these actions for change; how were these outcomes documented; and has the unit of change included more than just one or two faculty members to involve a department or set of departments in a coordinated effort to change teaching approaches within courses and across the department. This sort of information can provide a useful base for educational researchers interested in describing change efforts in academia, as well as provide information to interested faculty and institutions on how to uccessfully institute new approaches in teaching their discipline. Broader Impact: The breadth of institutions, fields within biology, and faculty that are included speaks for the broader impact of this project. In addition AAAS serves all STEM disciplines so the publicity given this effort can result in other disciplines trying similar efforts to improve their approaches to undergraduate education. The original effort has already catalyzed an interest from the engineering community. The fact that recent published efforts by both the American Academy of Medical Colleges (as concerns the preparation of pre-medical and medical students) and the Educational Testing Service (as concerns AP Biology) mirror the concerns and suggestions within the original Vision and Change publication heightens community interest in the results of this seminal meeting.