疫情下“基因工程”课程线上跨学科教学模式设计与实践

Interdisciplinary design and practice of online teaching and learning models in Genetic engineering course in the context of COVID-19 pandemic

摘要:

“新冠”疫情暴发凸显基因工程技术对社会经济的重大影响，基因工程离我们的生活越来越近。“新冠”疫情下，为了让学生更好地完成“基因工程”课程的居家学习，我们采用了基础知识微课自学(Small Private Online Course，SPOC)+案例应用课堂剖析(Tencent Instant Messenger，QQ)+管理拓展课后互助(QQ群)+疑难问题实时解答(QQ群)的跨学科教学模式开展在线教学，通过问题引入、真实情景剖析、跨学科拓展完成了课程基本原理和主要方法的教学，使学生掌握了基因研究的基本方法、基因表达流程、基因技术应用及安全管理相关的知识。通过思考新型冠状病毒肆虐情境下如何防控，帮助学生明晰了学习目的，提高了跨学科学习的兴趣；通过新型冠状病毒核酸检测的真实情景问题和组织实施由目标设计过程、确定方法、学习课程知识，进而掌握不同学科知识应用技能的跨学科教学活动，提高了学生将基因操作技能与专业技能融合解决实际问题的能力。教学实践证明，基础自学+案例剖析+互助拓展+实时答疑的跨学科在线教学模式，可以顺利完成课程教学任务并获得与传统课堂教学等同的效果；分析案例识别问题→设计方案解析过程→确定方法归属学科→学习知识获得技能→建立方案实现目标的跨学科教学方法，既让学生获得了专业技能与基因操作技能协同解决实际问题的经验，又培养了学生的跨学科思维和整合能力。

Abstract:

The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the significant social and economic impact of genetic engineering techniques, which are getting closer to our life. Aiming to facilitate the students to conduct online learning at home in the context of COVID-19 pandemic, we have adopted the blended online teaching-learning model, which is students learning basic knowledge independently via Small Private Online Course (SPOC) micro-videos, teachers dissecting practical cases via Tencent Instant Messenger (QQ) classroom, students expanding management skills cooperatively after class via QQ group and teachers answering the perplexed questions in real-time via QQ group. Based on the combined techniques of raising questions, dissecting practical cases and enlarging interdisciplinary knowledge, the basic principles and key methods were presented and the process of gene cloning, available methods and application of DNA techniques were grasped by the students. Additionally, by adopting the practical case of preventing and controlling COVID-19 pandemic, the students’ learning goals were made certain and the interdisciplinary learning interests enhanced. Moreover, under the guidance of the teachers, the interdisciplinary teaching-learning activities, based on the COVID-19 nucleic acid test, that includes designing the process to be adopted on the desired aims, defining the available methods and learning the courses knowledge, and then getting the application skills of different disciplinary knowledge, have strengthened the students’ ability of applying management skills in genetic engineering techniques to solve practical problems. Our practice indicates that the adopted online interdisciplinary model, including self-learning, dissecting case, mutual developing and answering questions in real-time, can make the set objectives achieved with the substantial equivalence to face-to-face version. In addition, via the explored teaching method that is composed of analyzing case for identifying the issue to be solved, followed by designing plan and dissecting the process, then determining methods to be used and matching the disciplines, and then learning knowledge and gaining the skills, finally setting project and realizing the aims, both the students’ problem-solving skills related to the intersection of gene manipulation techniques as well as management techniques and the interdisciplinary thinking and integrative capabilities were cultivated.