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Key Findings Networks achieve success by: - Increasing buy-in and reducing cost of failure - Deliberately including new points of activation (e.g. students, administrators, new faculty) - Including opportunities for face-to-face interaction - Moving beyond data to empowering people to act on the findings Vision & Change has: - Provided a common language to set and communicate goals - Expanded the community of biology educators committed to those goals and begun to broaden beyond our own discipline - Articulated the demand for improved education in a way that is translatable to other disciplines - Served as a catalyst to begin merging and/or

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Page 1: Key Findings Networks achieve success by:  Increasing buy-in and reducing cost of failure

Key Findings

Networks achieve success by:

- Increasing buy-in and reducing cost of failure- Deliberately including new points of activation (e.g. students, administrators, new faculty)- Including opportunities for face-to-face interaction- Moving beyond data to empowering people to act on the findings

Vision & Change has:

- Provided a common language to set and communicate goals- Expanded the community of biology educators committed to those goals and begun to broaden beyond our own discipline- Articulated the demand for improved education in a way that is translatable to other disciplines- Served as a catalyst to begin merging and/or connecting pre-existing networks

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Recommendations

1) Better connect existing networks and expand beyond “the choir”

- Create wikipedia entry for Vision & Change or “Biology Education Networks”

- Create online registry for existing networks, searchable by location and purpose

- Encourage presentation of talks and posters at conferences that aren’t “your own”

- Connect PULSE profiles with other networks (e.g. enable finding branded “Vision and Change” departments)

- Funders require in annual reports that you update your network entry

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Recommendations

2) Create a “PubMed” for science education

- Promote the inclusion of education articles in the research journals - Connect database of science education research articles with those from social and behavioral science journals - Connect the database with CourseSource

3) Collect best practices for evaluation of networks

- Connect with registry of networks (Recommendation 1)

- Consortium to match evaluators with networks

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Key Findings

• Networks have value.– Facilitate dissemination of curricula, tools, and

assessments– Support scaling– Enable education/scientific research– Provide communities (e.g. faculty, students,

interdisciplinary activity)• Networks are dynamic. – They evolve, have spin-offs, and go extinct.

Page 5: Key Findings Networks achieve success by:  Increasing buy-in and reducing cost of failure

Recommendations and Roadmap

• Invest in leadership development for network leaders– Compile, synthesize, share organizational change

and network science literatures– Organize workshops

• Leverage Networks– Inventory existing networks that are aligned with

the philosophy of the V&C recommendations– Continue V&C meetings

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Recommendations and Roadmap

• Fund Networks– Adequately fund core infrastructure– Support elements that promote leveraging and

effective action– Seed funding for grassroots formation– ASK - Do newly formed networks align with PCAST

and V&C recommendations?