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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 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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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 connecting pre-existing networks
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
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
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.
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
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?