移动微学习支持的生物信息学混合式学习途径探索

Exploration of a blended learning approach to bioinformatics teaching supported by mobile microlearning

生物信息学是生命科学、医学、农学、计算机和数学等相关领域的核心课程,具有交叉性和前沿性的学科特点,这些特点给本科教学带来一定的困扰,如教材不能覆盖最新的重要研究成果,教学内容选择的深度和广度难以把握。近年来,移动微学习资源建设,以及微学习与传统课堂教学的整合日益受到关注,并取得良好效果。对完成课程学习的在校生进行微学习需求的问卷调查,依据移动微学习理论,构建生物信息学移动微学习资源,并用于实际的课堂教学。选择本科生物信息学教学中两个基础性章节的内容,采用就地转换和个体转换两种混合式学习模式,探索移动微学习支持下的生物信息学混合式课堂教学的途径,以期为从事高校生物信息学及相关学科教学的教师提供参考。

As a core curriculum in life science,medicine,agronomy,computer science and some related fields,bioinformatics possess the interdisciplinary and frontier characteristics which brings some troubles to undergraduate teaching,for example,textbooks can not cover the latest important research results,and the depth and breadth of teaching content selection are difficult to grasp.In recent years,the growing concern has been paid to the construction of mobile microlearning resources and the integration of microlearning and traditional classroom teaching,and good results has been achieved.In this study,we conducted a survey research on the microlearning needs of the students who completed the course learning,and constructed a mobile microlearning resource of bioinformatics according to the theory of mobile microlearning,then used in the actual classroom teaching.We chose two basic chapters in bioinformatics teaching,and adopted two kinds of blended learning modes,i.e.station rotation and individual rotation models to explore a blended learning approach of bioinformatics supported by mobile microlearning resource.Our study provided a reference to the teachers of bioinformatics and related disciplines in colleges and universities.