Journal article
HITS: Harnessing a Collaborative Training Network to Create Case Studies that Integrate High-Throughput, Complex Datasets into Curricula
Frontiers in education (Lausanne), v 6, 711512
09 Aug 2021
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Abstract
As educators and researchers, we often enjoy enlivening classroom discussions by including examples of cutting-edge high-throughput (HT) technologies that propelled scientific discovery and created repositories of new information. We also call for the use of evidence-based teaching practices to engage students in ways that promote equity and learning. The complex datasets produced by HT approaches can open the doors to discovery of novel genes, drugs, and regulatory networks, so students need experience with the effective design, implementation, and analysis of HT research. Nevertheless, we miss opportunities to contextualize, define, and explain the potential and limitations of HT methods. One evidence-based approach is to engage students in realistic HT case studies. HT cases immerse students with messy data, asking them to critically consider data analysis, experimental design, ethical implications, and HT technologies.The NSF HITS (High-throughput Discovery Science and Inquiry-based Case Studies for Today's Students) Research Coordination Network in Undergraduate Biology Education seeks to improve student quantitative skills and participation in HT discovery. Researchers and instructors in the network learn about case pedagogy, HT technologies, publicly available datasets, and computational tools. Leveraging this training and interdisciplinary teamwork, HITS participants then create and implement HT cases. Our initial case collection has been used in >15 different courses at a variety of institutions engaging >600 students in HT discovery. We share here our rationale for engaging students in HT science, our HT cases, and network model to encourage other life science educators to join us and further develop and integrate HT complex datasets into curricula.
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- Title
- HITS: Harnessing a Collaborative Training Network to Create Case Studies that Integrate High-Throughput, Complex Datasets into Curricula
- Creators
- Sabrina D. Robertson - University of North Carolina at Chapel HillAndrea Bixler - Clarke UniversityMelissa R. Eslinger - United States Military AcademyMonica M. Gaudier-Diaz - Univ N Carolina, Dept Psychol & Neurosci, Chapel Hill, NC 27515 USAAdam J. Kleinschmit - University of DubuquePat Marsteller - Emory UniversityKate K. O'Toole - Emory UniversityUsha Sankar - Fordham UniversityCarlos C. Goller - North Carolina State University
- Publication Details
- Frontiers in education (Lausanne), v 6, 711512
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media Sa
- Number of pages
- 8
- Grant note
- 1730317 / NSF HITS RCN network (NSF); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Biology
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000694917200001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85113343577
- Other Identifier
- 991021879779404721
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