Reimagining professional development with Faculty Mentoring Networks

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Webinar Title: Reimagining professional development: Faculty mentoring networks as a model for connecting projects and teachers.

Presenter: Sam Donovan from the University of Pittsburgh and QUBES (Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis)

Date: December 14, 2016

Time: 3:00-4:00pm ET

Location: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/eo

Intended Audience: Undergraduate biology educators and anyone creating resources for undergraduates.

About: We all recognize the important roles of collaboration and scholarly communities in modern science. What might it look like to organize teaching scholarship around shared interests and resources? The Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) Project coordinates online communities that bring together educators and innovative learning resources to collaborate on scholarly projects - we call them Faculty Mentoring Networks. This is part of a broader effort to promote more sophisticated models of faculty development and materials dissemination that emphasize shared ownership, opportunities to make and track scholarly contributions, and implementation-centric support for changing teaching practices. We are thrilled to begin collaborating with the natural history collections community around opportunities to build active user groups and get more specimen based data into undergraduate classrooms.

 

The Education and Outreach Working Group is collaborating with the Small Collections Network, and Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education (BLUE) on a series of webinars for Fall 2016.

This is the fourth webinar in the series.

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