We have just completed the first decade of the 21st century, and the disciplines of biology and biology education have experienced a transformation. The past 10 years have been an exciting time for us! Think about how you were teaching biology in January 2000 and compare it to how you are teaching biology today. I'd wager you are doing things differently.
The advances in our biological knowledge have been immense. Discoveries made during the last half of the 20th century have changed the basic nature of the questions we ask in biology and fostered the birth of totally new disciplines. The past decade alone has seen the emergence of bioinformatics, computational genomics, astrobiology, and synthetic biology as well as refinement of the knowledge we already possess.
Changes have also taken place in the field of biology education that have reshaped the way we share biological knowledge with our students. New...
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