ImmunoReach: Incorporating Immunology into the Curriculum to Promote Interdisciplinary Science Education (RCN-UBE Introduction)

Name: ImmunoReach: Incorporating Immunology into the Curriculum to Promote Interdisciplinary Science Education (RCN-UBE Introduction)
Published: 2023-06-06
License: CC Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Sumali Pandey; Rebekah Taylor; Louis Justement

doi:10.25334/6XZP-BF16

ImmunoReach: Incorporating Immunology into the Curriculum to Promote Interdisciplinary Science Education (RCN-UBE Introduction)

Author(s): Sumali Pandey¹, Rebekah Taylor², Louis Justement³

1. Minnesota State University Moorhead 2. Frostburg State University 3. University of Alabama at Birmingham

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This is an interdisciplinary faculty community of practice, that connects immunology educators with faculty in other biology disciplines, with an intention to increase access to concept-focused immunology education across the undergraduate…

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This is an interdisciplinary faculty community of practice, that connects immunology educators with faculty in other biology disciplines, with an intention to increase access to concept-focused immunology education across the undergraduate curriculum, and in diverse institutional settings. The group meets virtually over the Fall and Spring, to foster collaborations and mentoring, for the development, implementation, and assessment of educational resources developed by the community members. This learning community shares classroom strategies, experiences and best practices, with a particular emphasis on pedagogical methods that develop skills and conceptual knowledge in undergraduate students.

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Undergraduate immunology education currently faces several critical challenges: 1) immunology is a content-heavy, rapidly-evolving field, which makes “keeping up” difficult for instructors; 2) immunology-focused labs require costly infrastructure and materials, which can be particularly challenging for educators in under-resourced institutions. This proposal addresses these major deficits and the intent is to develop a suite of activities that would be ready for implementation by novice and experienced instructors at introductory and advanced levels in a range of academic settings. By creating activities for student-focused, peer-reviewed IILOs that align with the core concepts listed in the Vision and Change report (AAAS 2011), ImmunoReach will promote deeper integration of immunology with the pedagogical practices in undergraduate STEM curricula.

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Bruns, H. A., Wisenden, B. D., Vanniasinkam, T., Taylor, R. T., Elliott, S. L., Sparks-Thissen, R. L., ... & Pandey, S. (2021). Inside the undergraduate immunology classroom: current practices that provide a framework for curriculum consensus. Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 22(1), ev22i1-2269.
Mixter, P. F., Kleinschmit, A. J., Lal, A., Vanniasinkam, T., Condry, D. L., Taylor, R. T., ... & Pandey, S. (2023). Immune literacy: a call to action for a system-level change. Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 24(1), e00203-22.
Pandey, S., Bruns, H. A., Condry, D. L., Kleinschmit, A. J., Lal, A., Sletten, S., ... & Elliott, S. L. (2022). Antigen and Immunogen: An Investigation into the Heterogeneity of Immunology Terminology in Learning Resources. ImmunoHorizons, 6(5), 312-323.
Pandey, S., Justement, L. B., & Taylor, R. (2022). Incorporating Immunology into the Undergraduate Curriculum to Promote Interdisciplinary Science Education. The Journal of Immunology, 208(1_Supplement), 106-04.