About Codon Learning

Codon Learning was formed by a team of biology educators to create a teaching and learning platform that is grounded in best practices from the education research literature. The platform is used in over 360 courses at many different types of colleges and universities. Recent education research studies showed that the platform eliminated grade gaps for less-prepared students and helped all students perform better.

Codon’s investors include many National Academy scientists who have taught college biology courses and also understand in how to scale paradigm changes in postsecondary education. The company is funded in part by the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Scott Freeman (University of Washington), a highly-cited biology education researcher, former best-selling textbook author, and course director of Codon’s Introducing the Sciences, describes the platform well: 

“Before Codon, no one had ever designed a teaching and learning platform that implemented backward design and high-structure course design, much less insights from the cognitive science literature on metacognition and self-regulated learning. They are working at an entirely different level of sophistication than any company I’ve run across.”