Professional Development in Evidence-Based Teaching:
Leveraging technology to help students succeed—a conversation with Codon Learning
Join a conversation with Scott Freeman, Jenny Knight, and Alexa Clemmons on leveraging technology to help students succeed
Friday, October 18, 2024
11:00 am PT/12:00 pm MT/ 1:00 pm CT/ 2:00 pm ET
Education studies show that high-structure courses can cut grade inequities by 40+%. What’s next after high structure?
Over the course of an hour, we’ll take a deeper dive into three core questions:
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What is high structure and how do we know it promotes equity in student outcomes?
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How can technology help students in high-structure courses spend their study time most productively?
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Can this approach reduce grade inequities even further?
We’ll highlight key literature, share new findings, and give an overview of how Codon Learning leverages technology to promote evidence-based practices at each stage of the learning cycle.
This seminar is sponsored by Codon Learning
This is a free event! Registration is required.
Attendees will receive a Zoom link for the event in their confirmation email.
Dr. Scott Freeman is Lecturer Emeritus at the University of Washington. The recipient of a UW Distinguished Teaching Award, he has published research on how innovative approaches to teaching science benefit all students, but particularly students from disadvantaged backgrounds. He is the author of the textbooks Biological Science and Evolutionary Analysis, which have sold over 500,000 copies and been translated into multiple languages, and the popular book Saving Tarboo Creek, which is for general audiences. He is the course director of Codon’s Learning’s majors biology curriculum: Introducing the Life Sciences.
Dr. Jenny 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 25 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 (withNIST), and studying how students learn by engaging 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.
Dr. Alexa Clemmons is Codon’s Director of Product. After earning her Ph.D. in genetics at the University of California San Diego, Alexa transitioned to discipline-based education research at the University of Washington. Her postdoctoral work unpacked the AAAS Vision and Change core competencies by first defining measurable learning outcomes and then developing curriculum mapping tools. During her PhD and postdoc, Alexa got to teach a variety of courses, trying her hand at the evidence-based teaching approaches that Codon promotes and learning their joys and challenges. At Codon, Alexa directs the platform’s feature development, with the goal of making evidence-based teaching and learning practices more effective and easier to use.
