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2014 Pacific Grove, CA

2014 Pacific Grove, CA

Summary of 2014 Pacific Grove Meeting

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AIM-UP! Annual All-hands Meeting

26 February – 2 March 2014

Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California,

Host: University of California-Berkeley

Background Reading:

AAAS’s Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education (http://visionandchange.org/)

Potential Topics for discussion:

1. Museum Specimens: A Nexus for Bioinformatics and BigData 

Specimens provide a powerful entry into concepts related to space, time, morphology, variability, repeatability 

2. The Challenge of Integration (Sound Science, Innovative Pedagogy, and Advanced Instructional Technology) 

New curricular materials must be scientifically AND pedagogically valid and should take advantage of innovative teaching technologies.

3. The Dissemination Challenge

New curriculum materials must be accessible to and adaptable by a wide range of faculty in diverse institutions. Where do we want to disseminate materials? Publications in educational journals? Specific educational meetings to attend? Integrating modules into courses at our institutions? ASM workshop? SSE workshop? Others?

4. Next steps

The new “Improving Undergraduate STEM Education” (IUSE) program at NSF.

Schedule

Agenda

Wednesday 26 February

Travel day arrive, check-in at Asilomar Conference Center

http://www.visitasilomar.com/ 

Phone: (888) 635-5310

Thursday 27 February

08:30-09:00 - Welcome and introductions (Eileen), Pre-Evaluation (assign 2 “scribes” for the day)

09:00-09:30 - Update AIM-UP!  (Joe, Eileen) 

09:30-9:50 - Overview of Educational Modules (Kayce)

9:50-10:00 - Overview of NSF Education Efforts (Scott)

10:00-10:15 - Coffee Break

10:15-11:15 - Climate Change & Museums (Charles Marshall) 

11:15-12:00 - Discussion of Climate Change & Museums and goals for meeting

12:00-13:30 - Lunch 

13:30-13:50 - Lightning Talk: A museum-based course at U Florida (Pam and Doug Soltis)

13:50-14:05 - Morphology and genetics module-Tali Hammond

14:05-15:00 - Introduce potential topics for module working groups (Steffi)

15:00-15:15 - Coffee Break

15:15-15:30 - Discussion of possible modules---Climate Change & Undergraduate Education

15:30-16:30 - First Round of 4 Module Breakouts (assign leader and scribe)

16:30-17:00 - Wrap up and other thoughts (discuss Pete’s potential)

18:00-19:00 - Dinner at Asilomar 

Friday 28 February

08:30-09:15 - Overview Day 1, Update for day 2

Discussion of goals for workshop (revise Sat agenda?) 

New topics, expected outcomes

Brainstorming: ideas for sequential (?) teaching modules 

09:15-10:15 - 4 subgroups (continue modules –same leader, shuffle others)    

10:15-10:30 - Subgroup reports and suggestions (5 minutes each) 

10:30-10:45 - Coffee break

10:45-11:00 - Discussion of publication: Climate Change & Museums

11:00-12:00 - Network evaluation & student participation (Eileen)

Update on IRB, surveys to date

Plan for surveys (e.g., before/after, types of courses)

Discussion of survey questions and other evaluation efforts

12:00-15:30 - Lunch & Fieldtrip

15:30-15:50 - Students working in natural history collections-What is the impact?  (Anna Monfils)

15:50-16:30 - 10 minute Summaries from 4 working groups

16:30-17:30 - Outcomes for the day, plans for tomorrow 

19:30-20:30 - Dinner at Asilomar

Saturday 1 March

08:30-09:00 - Summary of day 2 and plans for day 3 (assign “scribes”)

9:00-9:45 - Second Discussion of Publication: Climate Change & Museums

09:45-10:00 - Coffee Break

10:00-12:00 - Teacher Workshop – implementing demo modules

12:00-13:30 - Lunch

13:30-14:30 - Discussion and summary how did we do?

14:30-16:00 - Summary and next steps (working groups, workshops, etc)

17:00-19:00 - Dinner at Asilomar

Sunday 2 March

Departure from Asilomar

Background Reading:

AAAS’s Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education (http://visionandchange.org/)

Potential Topics for discussion:

1. Museum Specimens: A Nexus for Bioinformatics and BigData 

Specimens provide a powerful entry into concepts related to space, time, morphology, variability, repeatability 

2. The Challenge of Integration (Sound Science, Innovative Pedagogy, and Advanced Instructional Technology) 

New curricular materials must be scientifically AND pedagogically valid and should take advantage of innovative teaching technologies.

3. The Dissemination Challenge

New curriculum materials must be accessible to and adaptable by a wide range of faculty in diverse institutions. Where do we want to disseminate materials? Publications in educational journals? Specific educational meetings to attend? Integrating modules into courses at our institutions? ASM workshop? SSE workshop? Others?

4. Next steps

The new “Improving Undergraduate STEM Education” (IUSE) program at NSF.