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BEN Scholars Program & Institute & the Biological Sciences Pathway Presentation by Yolanda S. George, AAAS. About the BEN Scholars Program.

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  1. BEN Scholars Program & Institute & the Biological Sciences Pathway Presentation by Yolanda S. George, AAAS

  2. About the BEN Scholars Program • The goal of the BEN Scholars Program is to promote the use of digital library resources and student-centered teaching and learning methods in higher education, specifically in biological sciences lecture and laboratory courses, and in research training programs. • The program works both directly with faculty, as BEN Scholars, and indirectly through outreach activities led by BEN Scholars. • Outreach activities are aimed at biological sciences faculty and are carried out on campus with departments, locally throughout the region, and nationally through professional societies.

  3. Program Objectives - As a result of the BEN Scholars Program, both BEN Scholars and those involved in their outreach activities will: A. Increase their use of digital libraries and e-resources, specifically: • The BEN portal and its resources; • The digital libraries and e-resources of BEN Collaborators; • The NSDL University Faculty Page, including the Expert Voices to biological science. B. Submit a learning object to one of the BEN Collaborator libraries or the BEN Portal OR consider submitting a learning object to one of the BEN Collaborator libraries or the BEN Portal.

  4. Goals of the BEN Scholars Institute are to provide Scholars with: • A framework for using digital libraries and student-centered teaching and learning in higher education, specifically in biological sciences lecture and laboratory courses and in research training programs. • Resources and strategies to promote the use of digital libraries and student centered learning to their faculty colleagues.

  5. Goal of the NSDL Biological Sciences Pathway The BiosciEdNet (BEN) Collaborative is working with the NSDL Core Integration (CI) Team and other NSDL Pathways to expand its stewardship role for biological sciences professional societies and coalitions that provide resources, tools, and professional development for biological sciences educators in higher education institutions, including community colleges. Some BEN resources are useful for use in high school biology classes

  6. Institute Objectives – As a result of the BEN Scholars Institute: • BEN Scholars will increase their facility in using and actual use of the following digital resources: • The BEN portal; • The digital libraries of BEN Collaborators; and • The NSDL and NSDL Pathways libraries. B. BEN Scholars will increase their understanding of student-centered learning methods, including: • Inquiry-based teaching; • Interactive lectures; • Authentic assessment; • Problem-based learning; • Use of technology in teaching; and • Career information integration.

  7. BiosciEdNet (BEN) Collaborative BEN serves as a catalyst for professional societies or coalitions that seek to: • Build biological sciences education-focused digital libraries that include high quality, inquiry-driven, active, and engaging STEM education • Contribute resources to the BEN portal. • Collaborate in terms of pedagogy, authentic assessment, and development of multidisciplinary biological sciences resources.

  8. Collaborators (*Founding Collaborators) • AAAS-American Association for the Advancement of Science (EHR, STKE, Science)* • ABLE-Association of Biology Lab Educators • AIBS-American Institute of Biological Sciences* • APS-American Physiological Society* • APS-American Phytopathological Society* • ASBMB-American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology* • ASCB-American Society for Cell Biology • ASM-American Society for Microbiology* • BCC-BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium • Bio-Link-theNSF Advanced Technological Education Center for Biotechnology • BSA-Botanical Society of America • ESA-Ecological Society of America* • EntDL-Entomology Digital Library • FUN -Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience • HAPS-Human Anatomy and Physiology Society • MLER-Microbial Life Education Resources • NABT-National Association of Biology Teachers* • NAHSEP-National Association of Health Science Education Partnerships • NBII-National Biological Information Infrastructure* • NLM-AE-National Library of Medicine-Access Excellence* • SDB-Society for Developmental Biology • SICB-Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology • SOT-Society for Toxicology*

  9. Roles of BEN Collaborators • Building biological sciences education digital libraries for use by faculty in higher education institutions • Converting e-resources to biological sciences education digital libraries • Cataloging e-resources that are useful in biological sciences education in higher education institutions • Conducting outreach workshops that foster student centered learning and use of digital libraries, particularly for faculty • Archiving and preservation of biological sciences education resources • Use of the society services to foster cultural change in the teaching of biological sciences in higher education

  10. BEN Inventory of Resources (4,589) (11-06) • AAAS (152 lesson plans and multimedia resources) • ABLE (66 lab exercises and teaching strategies ) • AIBS (255 teaching and learning resources) • APS (501 teaching and learning resources) • APSNet (56 plant disease lessons and phytopathological career materials) • ASM (1540 teaching and learning resources) • BSA (948 annotated images) • ESA (192 teaching and learning resources) • FUN (28 journal articles) • HAPS (266 journal and newsletter articles) • NHM-Access Excellence (206 lesson plans and teaching strategies) • SOT (9 articles and toxicology career materials) • STKE (370 reviews, perspectives, and multimedia resources)

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  12. Learning Resources Types

  13. Challenges & Where We Need Your Help A. Increasing Numbers of Biological Sciences Faculty that Use The BEN Portal from about 7,500 to 15,000 Users by December 2007. B. Increasing Peer Reviewed Resources in the BEN Portal from about 4,600 to 27,000 by September of 2010 ***Identifying collaborators that want to catalog resources ***Increasing submissions of new resources by faculty (2,700 new faculty submissions by 2010)

  14. Challenges & Where We Need Your Help (Continued) C. Fostering Departmental Involvement ***Student centered learning in the biological sciences ***Incentives for faculty that develop teaching & learning projects & resources, particularly e-resources D. Improving Quality of BEN Portal Search – A Work in Progress (Community Building) ***Peer Reviewers ***Site Reviewers ***Metadata Reviewers ***Faculty on Sabbatical

  15. Coordinating Council AAAS Yolanda S. George, Deputy Director Linda Akli, Senior Program Associate Kirstin Fearnley, Program Associate Nancy Gough, Managing Editor/STKE AIBS Susan Musante, Manager, Education Programs ASM Amy L. Chang, Director, Education Department APS Marsha Lakes Matyas, Education Officer Melinda E. Lowy, Higher Education Programs Coordinator ESA Jason Taylor, Director of Education

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