A Road Map for Planning Course Transformation Using Learning Objectives

Orr, Rebecca B.; Gormally, Cara; Brickman, Peggy

doi:10.1187/cbe.23-06-0114

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2024

DOI: 10.1187/cbe.23-06-0114

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A Road Map for Planning Course Transformation Using Learning Objectives

Rebecca B. Orr,

Cara Gormally,

Peggy Brickman

Abstract: In this essay, we present a roadmap to help faculty who wish to learn how to use LOs to transform courses. We highlight the challenges faced when planning and undergoing a course transformation and present the lessons learned and common roadblocks that are reported in the literature.

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Development of learning objectives to support undergraduate virology curriculum guidelines

Kushner,

Breitbart,

Debbink

et al. 2024

J Microbiol Biol Educ.

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It has become increasingly important for microbiology educators to help students learn critical concepts of the discipline. This is particularly true in virology, where current challenges include increasing rates of vaccine hesitancy, misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic, and controversy surrounding research on pathogens with pandemic potential. Having students learn virology can attract more people to the field and increase the number of people who can engage in meaningful discourse about issues relating to the discipline. However, the limited number of virologists who teach undergraduates, combined with the fact that many institutions lack stand-alone virology courses, results in virology often being taught as a limited number of lectures within an undergraduate microbiology course (if it is covered at all), which may or may not be taught by an individual trained as a virologist. To provide a framework to teach virology to undergraduate students, a team of virology educators, with support from the American Society for Virology (ASV), developed curriculum guidelines for use in a stand-alone undergraduate virology course or a virology section within another course (D. B. Kushner et al., J Virol 96:e01305-22, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.01305-22 ). These guidelines are available at the ASV website ( https://asv.org/curriculum-guidelines/ ). To assist educators in implementing these guidelines, we created examples of measurable learning objectives. This perspective provides details about the virology curriculum guidelines and learning objectives and accompanies the perspective by Boury et al. in this issue of the Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education (25:e00126-24, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00126-24 ) about the recent revision of the microbiology curriculum guidelines overseen by the American Society for Microbiology.

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Development of learning objectives to support undergraduate virology curriculum guidelines

Kushner,

Breitbart,

Debbink

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J Microbiol Biol Educ.

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It’s in the Syllabus: What Syllabi Tell us about Introductory Biology Courses

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Olaniran,

Gormally

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A Road Map for Planning Course Transformation Using Learning Objectives

Abstract: In this essay, we present a roadmap to help faculty who wish to learn how to use LOs to transform courses. We highlight the challenges faced when planning and undergoing a course transformation and present the lessons learned and common roadblocks that are reported in the literature.

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Development of learning objectives to support undergraduate virology curriculum guidelines

Development of learning objectives to support undergraduate virology curriculum guidelines

It’s in the Syllabus: What Syllabi Tell us about Introductory Biology Courses

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