Creative Adjustments to an Undergraduate Chemical Biology Course from Research-Based in-Person to All-Remote Education during the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic

With the global pandemic this spring, we experienced a switch to remote education halfway through our semester at The College of New Jersey. For an advanced special topics in chemical biology class, lecture and group work required changes, increasing the number of assignments as well as the level of...

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Published in:Journal of chemical education 2020-09, Vol.97 (9), p.2742-2748
Main Author: Guarracino, Danielle A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biochemistry
Biology
College students
Colleges & universities
Course Content
COVID-19
Creativity
Curriculum development
Distance Education
Education
Educational Change
Laboratories
Learning
Learning Activities
Learning outcomes
Online instruction
Pandemics
Peptides
Science Instruction
Students
Undergraduate Students
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Summary:With the global pandemic this spring, we experienced a switch to remote education halfway through our semester at The College of New Jersey. For an advanced special topics in chemical biology class, lecture and group work required changes, increasing the number of assignments as well as the level of independent thinking and application-based learning. Laboratories that revolved around a cohesive research experience where students would have synthesized, characterized and tested novel peptides using biophysical and biochemical techniques were changed in a unique way. Using research, both published and unpublished, the developed vignettes retained the learning outcomes for students and provided students background, a task, and raw, unworked data. They made predictions, worked up the data, provided conclusions, suggestions, and analysis just as they would had they obtained the data first-hand. This work describes the original course design, the adjustments to lab, lecture, and assessments, what appeared successful, and what was challenging.
ISSN:0021-9584
1938-1328
DOI:10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c00719