About Codon Learning

Codon Learning’s mission is to help all students thrive and persist in biology by supporting instructors to teach with evidence-based practices, many of which are made easier with effective educational technology. We do this in two main ways:

• We support faculty in designing and teaching high-structure courses;

• We help students develop stronger metacognition and self-regulated learning skills.

Our early efficacy studies show that the platform helps all students perform better and that it's having an oversized effect with students who come to college unprepared. 

Today, the platform is used in over 550 courses at many different types of colleges and universities.

Codon’s funding comes from the National Science Foundation and scientists who care deeply about improving science education.

Dr. Scott Freeman (University of Washington), a leading education researcher, former textbook author, and course director of Codon’s Introducing the Sciences, says:

“Before Codon, no one had ever designed a teaching and learning platform that implemented backward design and high-structure course design, much less insights from the cognitive science literature on metacognition and self-regulated learning. They are working at an entirely different level of sophistication than any company I’ve run across.”