E-PACERR: ENHANCING PROFESSIONALISM, ADVOCACY, AND CAPACITY FOR EXCELLENCE IN RESPONSIBLE BIOINFORMATICS RESEARCH

E-PACERR：增强负责任的生物信息学研究的专业精神、宣传和卓越能力

• 批准号: 10676206
• 负责人: Kathryn M Cooper
• 金额: $ 9.1万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OMAHA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10676206
• 关键词: Address; Advocacy; Advocate; Agreement; Bioinformatics; Biomedical Research; Code; Communities; Complement; Computers; Data; Development; Dissent; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Effectiveness; Ethics; Exercise; Exposure to; Feedback; Foundations; Genetic; Goals; Home; Institution; International; Internet; Interview; Journals; Knowledge; Laboratories; Learning; Learning Module; Light; Mathematics; Measures; Mentorship; Methods; Microbiology; Outcome; Peer Review; Performance; Pilot Projects; Process; Professional Competence; Publications; Publishing; Reading; Recording of previous events; Reporting; Reproducibility; Research; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Research Training; Science; Students; System; Training; Training Programs; Training and Education; Work; Workplace; career; community engagement; computer science; course load; education research; experience; improved; interest; open source; pressure; programs; research in practice; skills; success; symposium; technical writing; tool; undergraduate student; usability

PROJECT SUMMARY This project will develop free, open, self-paced online modules on the Canvas LMS for exposing and educating bioinformatics trainees on knowledge that is typically considered to be outside of formal training in a traditional research education program. The topics to be covered include professionalism, tenets of reproducibility and replicability, standards for excellence, technical writing skills, best practices for data and code sharing, and advocacy in research. By exposing trainees to this knowledge, which can often be institutional and dependent on mentorship, we will (1) build confidence in trainees' ability to perform reproducible research in their own laboratory, research group, or workplace setting; (2) support a more active and engaged bioinformatics research workforce; and (3) provide a piloted curriculum for other bioinformatics research training programs to implement in their own educational settings. Direct trainings on ethics, responsible research, or professionalism are notably absent in most formal training in bioinformatics. While a number of supplementary responsible conduct in research trainings exist, many of these focus on achieving compliance instead of best practice. To build a standard of excellence in bioinformatics research, trainees need a sense of community and knowledge of the historical context of biomedical research to understand and motivate the need for excellence in bioinformatics research in practice. Our modules will teach trainees about the bioinformatics community, and how to engage that community in a number of scenarios depending on their personal ability to do so. Content will be broken down into a minimum of 12 major modules, and will be presented as a combination of videos, quizzes, audio interviews, at-home exercises, coding exercises, and open- access reading material. All exams/quizzes/assignments will be auto graded. The proposed project will serve to complement ongoing training in bioinformatics education at any point in one's career. Provision of short, online, self-paced modules allows the user to compare their results to other common results, as well as informing trainees how to most effectively join in their local, regional, and international science communities to discuss and engage other users on their approaches. By demonstrating the value of this training through addressing questions that trainees typically have about the `non-formal' aspects of research training, we will achieve better trainee engagement and therefore a more effective “responsible conduct in research” experience, improving professional competence in bioinformatics trainees.

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