Abstract
The online environment poses a number of challenges, including creating
opportunities for students to interact and get to know each other. I propose
adding online discussions that can allow students to explore the real-world
implications of biochemistry to provide course context, build the classroom community,
diversify student assessment, and practice communication and information
literacy skills. Utilizing current events and elements of students' daily lives
can help students interconnect what they are learning and increase student
interest in the course. These discussions ask students to explore a topic, reflect
on what they would like to learn, find information, and report back on what
they have learned. Herein I provide an example of a discussion prompt, a table
of other potential discussion topics that are aligned with common biochemistry
course topics, and results from student survey supporting discussion format.

Creator

• Wilson, Kristy J.

Publisher

• International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Identifier

• DOI: 10.1002/bmb.21487

关键词

• malnutrition

• interest

• discussion

• biochemistry

Date created

• Revised: 21 October 2020

• Accepted: 8 December 2020

• Received: 31 August 2020

Related URL

• Available from the publisher website:  https://iubmb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bmb.21487

• Available for access or request from the library catalog:  https://marianunivindianapolis.on.worldcat.org/oclc/45409187

Resource type

• Article

Source

• Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2020:49.2

Rights statement

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/