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Impacts of a COVID-19 E-Service-Learning Module in a Non-Major Biology Course
Educators need to create an informed scientifically aware citizenry, especially in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic, where public health measures have focused on increasing adoption of safe behaviors for reducing the transmission of COVID-19. Non-major science students make up an important, yet unde...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8046666/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33884098 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v22i1.2489 |
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author | Adkins-Jablonsky, Sarah Fleming, Ryleigh Esteban, Marco Bucio, Diana Morris, J. Jeffrey Raut, Samiksha |
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description | Educators need to create an informed scientifically aware citizenry, especially in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic, where public health measures have focused on increasing adoption of safe behaviors for reducing the transmission of COVID-19. Non-major science students make up an important, yet understudied, part of our public, given that they constitute tomorrow’s voters, workers, consumers, and policy-makers. Expecting that non-majors may benefit from a module connecting COVID-19 to community education, we implemented a novel E-service-learning module in light of the transition from an in-person course to an online platform. Our 4-week module included expert-led lectures, assigned digital infographics about COVID-19 safety precautions, and a required post-reflection assignment summarizing their learning gains. Out of 112 enrolled students, 87 consented to have their reflections analyzed and 8 students chose to participate in additional one-on-one online interviews. In an effort to determine which parts of our module garnered the most student commentary, we grouped post-reflection and interview data into four categories: service-learning infographic, service-learning guest lectures, information on COVID-19, and the broader implications of COVID-19. While 13% of students explicitly referenced infographics in their reflections, a far greater proportion (37%) explicitly referenced learning gains related to the expert-led lectures. Based on these findings, we encourage other educators to continue to explore the impact of E-service-learning content and assignments to help maximize learning in an online classroom environment during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. |
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spelling | pubmed-80466662021-04-20 Impacts of a COVID-19 E-Service-Learning Module in a Non-Major Biology Course Adkins-Jablonsky, Sarah Fleming, Ryleigh Esteban, Marco Bucio, Diana Morris, J. Jeffrey Raut, Samiksha J Microbiol Biol Educ Teaching in a Time of Crisis Educators need to create an informed scientifically aware citizenry, especially in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic, where public health measures have focused on increasing adoption of safe behaviors for reducing the transmission of COVID-19. Non-major science students make up an important, yet understudied, part of our public, given that they constitute tomorrow’s voters, workers, consumers, and policy-makers. Expecting that non-majors may benefit from a module connecting COVID-19 to community education, we implemented a novel E-service-learning module in light of the transition from an in-person course to an online platform. Our 4-week module included expert-led lectures, assigned digital infographics about COVID-19 safety precautions, and a required post-reflection assignment summarizing their learning gains. Out of 112 enrolled students, 87 consented to have their reflections analyzed and 8 students chose to participate in additional one-on-one online interviews. In an effort to determine which parts of our module garnered the most student commentary, we grouped post-reflection and interview data into four categories: service-learning infographic, service-learning guest lectures, information on COVID-19, and the broader implications of COVID-19. While 13% of students explicitly referenced infographics in their reflections, a far greater proportion (37%) explicitly referenced learning gains related to the expert-led lectures. Based on these findings, we encourage other educators to continue to explore the impact of E-service-learning content and assignments to help maximize learning in an online classroom environment during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. American Society of Microbiology 2021-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8046666/ /pubmed/33884098 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v22i1.2489 Text en ©2021 Author(s). Published by the American Society for Microbiology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ and https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) ), which grants the public the nonexclusive right to copy, distribute, or display the published work. |
spellingShingle | Teaching in a Time of Crisis Adkins-Jablonsky, Sarah Fleming, Ryleigh Esteban, Marco Bucio, Diana Morris, J. Jeffrey Raut, Samiksha Impacts of a COVID-19 E-Service-Learning Module in a Non-Major Biology Course |
title | Impacts of a COVID-19 E-Service-Learning Module in a Non-Major Biology Course |
title_full | Impacts of a COVID-19 E-Service-Learning Module in a Non-Major Biology Course |
title_fullStr | Impacts of a COVID-19 E-Service-Learning Module in a Non-Major Biology Course |
title_full_unstemmed | Impacts of a COVID-19 E-Service-Learning Module in a Non-Major Biology Course |
title_short | Impacts of a COVID-19 E-Service-Learning Module in a Non-Major Biology Course |
title_sort | impacts of a covid-19 e-service-learning module in a non-major biology course |
topic | Teaching in a Time of Crisis |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8046666/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33884098 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v22i1.2489 |
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