BioSci education network (BEN) collaborative

The BEN Collaborative, spearheaded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and composed of professional societies and coalitions for biology education, is developing a revolutionary approach for transforming biology teaching and learning in undergraduate and graduate institutions, as well as professional schools. Through the development of a BEN portal site, the BEN Collaborative is providing users with searchable and seamless access to BEN Collaborators' digital library collections of accurate and reliable biology education resources. The challenges met by BEN in collaboratively developing a portal site and digital collection is discussed.