This Research Topic is the second volume of the 'Community series in Tools, Techniques, and Strategies for Teaching in a Real-World Context with Microbiology'. Please see the first volume
here.
Making the relevance of microbiology and microbiology techniques clear to students increases student engagement with science and its many applications. By sharing our work with one another, we can identify, build, and demonstrate connections and show how microbes impact us at many levels and we them.
The ubiquity of microbes, their connections to health and hosts, their use in emerging technologies, and their connections with our ecosystems, terrestrial, or aquatic or atmospheric, all these features of microbes lead to engaging and exciting curricula and assignments. They make wonderful tools as they are easy to manipulate in the laboratory and as model organisms help us study biological phenomena and concepts. They also allow faculty to design and engage students in authentic research experiences inside and outside the classroom.
This Research Topic welcomes Original Research, Review, and Mini-Review articles focusing on teaching with a real-world focus on microbiology. Possible teaching areas could include microbiology as a tool for social good, neglected tropical diseases, how microbiology links to the sustainable development goals, the microbiome, and human health, public trust of science, vaccine uptake, and emerging infectious diseases. Teaching tools and strategies could include case studies, project-based learning, Classroom-Based Undergraduate Research, and student e-Portfolios.
This Research Topic is the second volume of the 'Community series in Tools, Techniques, and Strategies for Teaching in a Real-World Context with Microbiology'. Please see the first volume
here.
Making the relevance of microbiology and microbiology techniques clear to students increases student engagement with science and its many applications. By sharing our work with one another, we can identify, build, and demonstrate connections and show how microbes impact us at many levels and we them.
The ubiquity of microbes, their connections to health and hosts, their use in emerging technologies, and their connections with our ecosystems, terrestrial, or aquatic or atmospheric, all these features of microbes lead to engaging and exciting curricula and assignments. They make wonderful tools as they are easy to manipulate in the laboratory and as model organisms help us study biological phenomena and concepts. They also allow faculty to design and engage students in authentic research experiences inside and outside the classroom.
This Research Topic welcomes Original Research, Review, and Mini-Review articles focusing on teaching with a real-world focus on microbiology. Possible teaching areas could include microbiology as a tool for social good, neglected tropical diseases, how microbiology links to the sustainable development goals, the microbiome, and human health, public trust of science, vaccine uptake, and emerging infectious diseases. Teaching tools and strategies could include case studies, project-based learning, Classroom-Based Undergraduate Research, and student e-Portfolios.