Reinventing postgraduate training in the plant sciences: T-training defined through modularity, customization, and distributed mentorship.

ABSTRACT: The Plant Science Research Network (PSRN) comprises scientific societies and organizations with a mission to build and communicate a consensus vision of the future of plant science research, education, and training. This report enumerates a set of far-reaching recommendations for postgraduate training that emerged from workshops held in October 2016 and September 2017. These recommendations broaden and deepen the T-training concept presented in the Decadal Vision for Plant Science, which emphasizes experiential learning beyond the traditional disciplinary focus. Both workshops used the scenarios developed in Imagining Science in 2035 as a mechanism to encourage out-of-the-box thinking, an approach that led to the innovative recommendations and solutions described here. At the heart of our

SUBMITTER: Henkhaus NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6508785 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature