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Pandemic Teaching : Creating and teaching cell biology labs online during COVID ‐19
Author(s) -
Delgado Tracie,
Bhark ShunJe,
Donahue Joshua
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
biochemistry and molecular biology education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1539-3429
pISSN - 1470-8175
DOI - 10.1002/bmb.21482
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , virtual lab , online learning , set (abstract data type) , online teaching , synthetic biology , mathematics education , computer science , biology , multimedia , computational biology , psychology , virology , medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , pathology , outbreak , programming language
The year 2020 will forever be remembered as a season of pandemic teaching due to rising COVID‐19 infections. Institutions of higher learning abruptly changed from in‐person to online in attempts to minimize COVID‐19 spread. Due to this, we created and taught online cell biology labs in response to the COVID‐19 campus shutdown. Our virtual cell biology lab course emphasized molecular and cellular biology methods that can be used to study cells. Our report includes cell biology lab descriptions, learning outcomes, skills learned, lab set up and format, virtual tools used, lab sources, and lessons learned. We show how creative online lab alternatives can provide students valuable scientific learning experiences when in‐person learning is not possible.