BIO/EHR Working Group on Undergraduate Education

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Progress Report for Joint BIOEHR Advisory
Committee Meeting 19 April 2007
Ernest Manewal
BIO/EHR Working Group on Undergraduate Education
J. Ellis Bell (BIO) Penny Firth (BIO
co-chair) Emily Leichtman (BIO) Linda Slakey (EHR
co-chair) Judy Skog (BIO) Dan Udovic (EHR) Terry
Woodin (EHR)
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Key issues include, but are not limited to

1. Critical skills and knowledge expected of
   graduates majors and non-majors
2. Restructuring biology education and the UG
   biology curricula for todays students
3. Effective learning and teaching approaches and
   materials
4. Integration of research opportunities
5. Highlighting relevance of advances in the field
   to life and work
6. Increasing accessibility for all

Sandy Eastoak
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After the Fall Joint BIO-EHR AC Meeting
Continued discussions between BIO and EHR on
possible joint activities. EHR-sponsored
workshop on Concept Inventories held March 07.
Report forthcoming. Began planning for several
activities.
http//www.main.nc.us/hca-cg/weaver.JPG
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Activities being planned include
Informal conversations to frame next steps and
identify potential individuals/groups to be
involved in a formal workshop. Formal workshop
Vision and Change meeting a jointly-sponsored
meeting of key scholars and educators. NRC study
to build on and complement the BIO 2010 report
(2003) and the NRC study on the Conceptual Basis
of Biology (expected 2007) RTCN Research and
Teaching Coordination Networks. New grant
opportunities focused on research, education, and
practice.
David Stoecklein
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Research and Teaching Coordination Networks (RTCN)
(include research, education, and practice)
BIO AC role in developing questions to guide
conversations identifying Steering Cmte members
Informal Conversations
Help ID Steering Cmte members
Steering Committee Meetings
(Members empowered to select others for meetings
and to increase buy-in)
Vision and Change Meeting
NRC Study
BIO AC comments on this plan?
Conceptual Basis of Biology
BIO 2010
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Questions that might be used to guide informal
conversations
What are the core concepts? How do we enable the
design of a curriculum around these
concepts? How should faculty be prepared? Are
the strategies different for bio majors, science
majors, general education?
Russell W. Porter