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September 29, 2022

A CODON CONVO: How technology can be used to promote Self-Regulated Learning with Jenny Knight

Dr. Jenny Knight is using the Codon Learning courseware platform to study students’ self-regulated learning behaviors. Professor Knight will lead a discussion on self-regulated learning and share findings from her ongoing research. Attendees will have the chance to login and experience the Codon platform as the Codon team demonstrates how the Codon “Study Path” helps students reflect on the learning objectives they need to work on and use self-testing to achieve those objectives.

Dr. Jennifer Knight has been teaching courses to all levels of undergraduates in the Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado Boulder for 20 years. She has worked to develop this Genetics course over many years, choosing only a subset of commonly taught topics in order to create more opportunities for active and deeper learning. Her work as a Biology Education Researcher has included developing concept assessments to diagnose student misunderstandings and measure learning gains, facilitating many workshops on scientific teaching, and studying how students engage in complex problem solving and reasoning, particularly in genetics. She is the past President (2019-2020) and founding member of the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER).

Thanks for joining us! If you’d like a transcript of this event, please email us at info@codonlearning.com

May 16, 2022

Codon Learning to develop open-source Scientific Teaching course

Golden, CO., May 16, 2022 – In collaboration with Tiny Earth, Codon Learning will develop a digital, open-access Scientific Teaching course in its platform. The course will integrate an AJEDI (antiracist, just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive) approach to teaching. The collaboration is generously funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.  

More than half of all students who begin their college career as a STEM major do not finish with a STEM degree. This lack of retention disproportionately affects students from historically underserved groups—first-generation college attendees, students from racial and ethnic minorities, and students from low-income families. The goal of the Scientific Teaching Course is to help faculty apply evidence-based teaching practices that are proven to boost student learning, increase retention, and bridge pervasive representation gaps. Much of the content and overall design for the course will be drawn from Scientific Teaching, the pioneering book written by Jo Handelsman, Sarah Miller, and Christine Pfund. 

“We’re thrilled to have received this support from the Hewlett Foundation. For the last 20 years, I have been a part of an incredible network of educators who have created a curriculum to help instructors teach with inclusive evidence-based practices. This grant will allow us to digitize and scale a highly engaging and interactive version of the curriculum within Codon Learning’s platform. We will be able to reach science educators all over the world at every level of the curriculum,” said Dr. Jennifer Knight, chief academic officer of Codon Learning.  

The team is led by Jennifer Knight, Associate Professor of Biology in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado Boulder and Codon Learning’s Chief Academic Officer and Sarah Miller, Executive Director of Tiny Earth at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Jo Handelsman, Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will serve in an advisory capacity.

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