Problem-based Learning Modules for Systems Biology

开发促进跨学科整合的教育材料的任务对于本科院校来说尤其具有挑战性，因为本科院校的教学负荷如此之高，以至于教师发现很难跟上自己领域的新发展，更不用说在新的跨学科领域，如综合系统生物学。该项目的目标是创建全面的教育材料，帮助全国教师进入综合系统生物学领域，教育学生，并使他们参与跨学科的系统生物学研究。通过开发拟议的材料，该项目将为教育现任和未来的教师，包括博士后研究员和年轻科学家奠定基础。这一战略预计将有一个巨大的乘数效应，并将授权教师谁否则可能无法从事跨学科领域的综合系统biology.There是一个迫切需要在新领域的综合系统biology.There的教材，特别是在本科院校教师很少有时间来开发新的课程，需要几个不同的母学科的知识。要开发的材料包括讲座幻灯片，项目，练习，家庭作业问题，解决方案，背景材料，不同语言的计算机代码，以及其他材料，这些材料简化了来自STEM教育不同领域的教师的综合系统生物学课程的开发。拟议的材料将在格鲁吉亚理工学院开发和阿尔法测试。随后的β测试将在斯佩尔曼学院进行，斯佩尔曼学院历史上被称为少数民族机构，主要迎合来自代表性不足群体的女学生。随后，将在其他学院进一步测试教学模块。

The task of developing educational materials that foster interdisciplinary integration is especially challenging for undergraduate colleges where the teaching load is so high that faculty find it difficult to keep up with new developments in their own fields, let alone in new discipline-spanning fields such as integrative systems biology. The goal of this project is to create fully comprehensive educational materials that will help faculty nationwide enter the field of integrative systems biology, educate students, and engage them in interdisciplinary systems-based biological research. By developing the proposed materials, the project will lay the foundation for educating current and future teachers, including postdoctoral fellows and young scientists. This strategy is anticipated to have an enormous multiplier effect and will empower instructors who might otherwise not be able to engage in the transdisciplinary field of integrative systems biology.There is a pressing need for educational materials in the new field of integrative systems biology, in particular at undergraduate colleges where faculty have little time to develop new courses that require knowledge of several distinct parent disciplines. The materials to be developed consist of lecture slides, projects, exercises, homework problems, solutions, background materials, computer code in different languages, and other materials that simplify the development of integrative systems biology courses for faculty that come from different fields of STEM education. The proposed materials will be developed and alpha-tested at Georgia Institute of Technology. Subsequent beta-testing will occur at Spelman College, historically known as a minority institution that primarily caters to female students from underrepresented groups. Subsequently the teaching modules will be further tested at other colleges.