A constructivist-based proposal for bioinformatics teaching practices during lockdown.
review · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 33983931.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008922 and PMC identifier 8118257.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreaks have caused universities all across the globe to close their campuses and forced them to initiate online teaching. This article reviews the pedagogical foundations for developing effective distance education practices, starting from the assumption that promoting autonomous thinking is an essential element to guarantee full citizenship in a democracy and for moral decision-making in situations of rapid change, which has become a pressing need in the context of a pandemic. In addition, the main obstacles related to this new context are identified, and solutions are proposed according to the existing bibliography in learning sciences.
Medical subject headings
- COVID-19
- Computational Biology
- Education, Distance
- Quarantine
- Teaching