Open AccessTeaching in the Time of COVID-19: Creation of a Digital Internship to Develop Scientific Thinking Skills and Create Science Literacy Exercises for Use in Remote Classrooms †
Author(s) -
Nancy Boury,
Kanwal S. Alvarez,
Amaya García Costas,
Gwendowlyn S. Knapp,
Rebecca L. Seipelt-Thiemann
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of microbiology and biology education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.301
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1935-7885
pISSN - 1935-7877
DOI - 10.1128/jmbe.v22i1.2433
Subject(s) - internship , covid-19 , scientific literacy , medical education , computer science , mathematics education , science education , medicine , psychology , virology , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The extreme academic and social disruption caused by COVID-19 in the spring and summer of 2020 led to the loss of many student internships. We report here our creation of a novel internship for students majoring in the biological sciences.