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Nanocourses: A Short Course Format as an Educational Tool in a Biological Sciences Graduate Curriculum

机译:纳米课程:作为生物科学研究生课程中一种教育工具的简短课程形式

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Traditional courses for graduate students in the biological sciences typically span a semester, are organized around the fundamental concepts of a single discipline, and are aimed at the needs of incoming students. Such courses demand significant time commitment from both faculty and course participants; thus, they are avoided by a subset of the academic science community. Course length and the high barrier to course development are inhibitory to the creation of new courses, especially in emerging areas of biology that may not merit a full-semester approach. Here, we describe the implementation of a new, graduate-level course format, created to allow for rapid development of courses, provide meaningful educational experiences for both junior and senior graduate students and other members of our community, and increase the breadth of faculty involvement in teaching. These courses are greatly abbreviated, and thus termed “nanocourses.” Based on experience from the first three semesters, nanocourses seem to accomplish the initial goals that we set. Importantly, nanocourses engaged students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty, and others, thus providing a new mechanism to educate our community in response to rapid advances in biology. In our view, nanocourses are a useful tool that can supplement graduate-level curricula in varied ways.
机译:针对生物科学研究生的传统课程通常跨越一个学期,围绕单一学科的基本概念进行组织,并针对即将到来的学生的需求。此类课程需要教师和课程参与者投入大量时间;因此,学术科学界的一部分避免了它们。课程长度和课程开发的高障碍阻碍了新课程的创建,特别是在新兴的生物学领域,可能不宜采用全学期方法。在这里,我们描述了一种新的,研究生水平的课程格式的实现方式,该课程格式的创建是为了使课程能够快速发展,为初中和高等研究生以及我们社区的其他成员提供有意义的教育体验,并增加教师参与的广度在教学中。这些课程被极大地缩写,因此被称为“纳米课程”。根据前三个学期的经验,纳米课程似乎可以实现我们设定的最初目标。重要的是,纳米课程吸引了学生,博士后,教师和其他人员,从而为响应生物学的快速发展提供了一种新的机制来教育我们的社区。我们认为,纳米课程是一种有用的工具,可以以多种方式补充研究生水平的课程。

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