Certification: A Wave or a Ripple?

Presenter:  Jeanette Mowery will lead the discussion.

Certification has been a long-standing discussion topic in the biotech education world and we may be getting close to seeing it happen.

Three months ago, we polled our LinkedIn group to survey their thoughts on certification.

Twenty six people commented on both the positive and negative aspects of certificiation.  You can read the comments here 

What do you think about certification? Add your comments at our LinkedIn group or enter them below.

Steps toward certification:

1.  Review definitions - certification vs. accredition vs. certificates

2.  Identify core competencies

3.  Decide on types of certifications

4.  Decide on criteria

What are core competencies in biotech?

Lisa Seidman has put together a draft with some ideas - Thinking about Core Competencies in Biotech

We want input from the community.

Making a Wave: Why Community College Instructors Should Publish Their Work

Presenter:  Linnea Fletcher

An increasing number of venues have appeared where community college instructors can begin to publish the findings from their grant projects and other types of educational research.

Dr. Fletcher will discuss why publications are important to your funding agency and the community as a whole and work with the attendees to discuss ideas for publications and the publication process.

To prepare for this workshop, you may wish to consult the following open access venues where you might publish:

CBE Life Sciences Education

PLoS Biology Education Series

Synergy Bridge to Biotech (B2B) Overview

Presenters: John Carrese & Laurence Clement

Background reading on the Bridge to Biotechnology

Birds of a Feather Sessions

Earlier this spring, you shared lots of ideas when we asked for your suggestions for topics for the Summer Fellows Forum.   
 

We think quite a few of these topics would make good Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions.

Here they are below:

• Using Kickstarter to fund projects

• Growing a program

• Quantifying "Good Hands"

• Social networks + mobile technologies

• Class management and teaching challenges

• Teaching & working in a regulated environment

• Developing state standards

If you would like to  lead one of these discussions, either volunteer below or people know at room 204 when it's time for BOFs.  

If you have other topics, please sign up in the comment section below and write down the topic that you'd like to lead.

Surfing the Stem Cell Pipeline Workshop

Presenters: Edie Kaeuper, Carin Zimmerman, Golnar Afshar, George Cachianes, Bill Woodruff & Samantha Croft Farmer

The presenters will discuss their work using stem cell technology in their courses.
Slides from all the presentations are combined into the single presentation shown below.
 

Teaching STEM Concepts through Theater Workshop: Putting Steam into STEM

Presenter: Holly Kerby, MATC
 

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Hands-On Lab Workshop III: New, Improved rAmylase Lab Workshop

Presenter: Ellen Daugherty