Establishing a computational biology flipped classroom.
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Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 31120882.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006764 and PMC identifier 6532840.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
In a flipped classroom, students complete automated modules to replace a traditional lecture, allowing the time devoted for the lecture to be devoted to constructive tasks reinforcing student knowledge. Yet although the flipped classroom offers a compelling approach for fostering a constructivist, student-centric learning environment, research on the efficacy of flipped classes has been mixed. For that matter, is it possible to successfully flip a classroom in an advanced, heavily specialized course like a bioinformatics algorithms course? Over the past several years, the author has implemented a flipped version of such a course and will discuss some of the successes and pitfalls encountered.
Medical subject headings
- Computational Biology
- Problem-Based Learning