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Key Findings Networks achieve success by: Increasing buy-in and reducing cost of failure

Key Findings Networks achieve success by: Increasing buy-in and reducing cost of failure Deliberately including new points of activation (e.g. students, administrators, new faculty) Including opportunities for face-to-face interaction

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Key Findings Networks achieve success by: Increasing buy-in and reducing cost of failure

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  1. Key Findings • Networks achieve success by: • Increasing buy-in and reducing cost of failure • Deliberately including new points of activation (e.g. students, administrators, new faculty) • Including opportunities for face-to-face interaction • - Moving beyond data to empowering people to act on the findings • Vision & Change has: • Provided a common language to set and communicate goals • Expanded the community of biology educators committed to those goals and begun to broaden beyond our own discipline • Articulated the demand for improved education in a way that is translatable to other disciplines • - Served as a catalyst to begin merging and/or connecting pre-existing networks

  2. Recommendations • 1) Better connect existing networks and expand beyond “the choir” • - Create wikipediaentry for Vision & Change or “Biology Education Networks” • Create online registry for existing networks, searchable by location and purpose • Encourage presentation of talks and posters at conferences that aren’t “your own” •  - Connect PULSE profiles with other networks (e.g. enable finding branded “Vision and Change” departments) • - Funders require in annual reports that you update your network entry

  3. Recommendations • 2) Create a “PubMed” for science education • - Promote the inclusion of education articles in the research journals • - Connect database of science education research articles with those from social and behavioral science journals • Connect the database with CourseSource • 3) Collect best practices for evaluation of networks • Connect with registry of networks (Recommendation 1) • Consortium to match evaluators with networks

  4. Key Findings • Networks have value. • Facilitate dissemination of curricula, tools, and assessments • Support scaling • Enable education/scientific research • Provide communities (e.g. faculty, students, interdisciplinary activity) • Networks are dynamic. • They evolve, have spin-offs, and go extinct.

  5. Recommendations and Roadmap • Invest in leadership development for network leaders • Compile, synthesize, share organizational change and network science literatures • Organize workshops • Leverage Networks • Inventory existing networks that are aligned with the philosophy of the V&C recommendations • Continue V&C meetings

  6. Recommendations and Roadmap • Fund Networks • Adequately fund core infrastructure • Support elements that promote leveraging and effective action • Seed funding for grassroots formation • ASK - Do newly formed networks align with PCAST and V&C recommendations?

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