UCSF's Science & Health Education Partnership (SEP) and the Office of Career and Professional Development (OCPD) are co-hosting a Science Education Journal Club this spring.
Join our monthly meetings to discuss current research findings in science education and science teaching. This will be an informal setting for anyone in the UCSF community to learn more about teaching and learning and how to incorporate research-based strategies into their instruction, in K-12 as well as undergraduate settings.
The next UCSF Science Education Journal Club will take place next week on Thursday February 26th from 3 to 4pm at Parnassus in room N-417. This monthly journal club is organized jointly by two UCSF programs: the Science & Health Education Partnership (SEP) and the Office of Career and Professional Development (OCPD).
This month, the Journal Club will be discussing:
Prunuske, A. J., Batzli, J., Howell, E., & Miller, S. (2012). Using online lectures to make time for active learning. Genetics, 192(1), 67–72.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3430546/
The discussion questions will be emailed to the Science Education Journal Club mailing list before the meeting.
If you haven't joined the list yet, please sign-up here: http://bitly.com/UCSFsejc
Abstract: To make time in class for group activities devoted to critical thinking, we integrated a series of short online lectures into the homework assignments of a large, introductory biology course at a research university. The majority of students viewed the online lectures before coming to class and reported that the online lectures helped them to complete the in-class activity and did not increase the amount of time they devoted to the course. In addition, students who viewed the online lecture performed better on clicker questions designed to test lower-order cognitive skills. The in-class activities then gave the students practice analyzing the information in groups and provided the instructor with feedback about the students' understanding of the material. On the basis of the results of this study, we support creating hybrid course models that allow students to learn the fundamental information outside of class time, thereby creating time during the class period to be dedicated toward the conceptual understanding of the material.
Please contact Laurence Clement if you have any questions:
Laurence Clement, PhD, Program Director, Academic Career Development| Office of Career and Professional Development, UCSF| 415-502-3097 |[email protected].