Meet the Metaorganism: A web-based learning app for undergraduate and graduate biology students.
digital learning
host-microbe interactions
metaorganism
microbiome education
online education
science education
visual science communication
Journal
BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology
ISSN: 1521-1878
Titre abrégé: Bioessays
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8510851
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
10 2023
10 2023
Historique:
revised:
19
07
2023
received:
02
03
2023
accepted:
20
07
2023
medline:
22
9
2023
pubmed:
31
7
2023
entrez:
31
7
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Meet the Metaorganism is a web-based learning app that combines three fundamental biological concepts (coevolution, community dynamics, and immune system) with latest scientific findings using the metaorganism as a central case study. In a transdisciplinary team of scientists, information designers, programmers, science communicators, and educators, we conceptualized and developed the app according to the latest didactic and scientific findings and aimed at setting new standards in visual design, digital knowledge transfer, and online education. A content management system allows continuous integration of new findings, which enables us to expand the app with the dynamics of the research field. Students can thus gain a close insight and connection to current research, and at the same time learn that knowledge is not static but grows dynamically. Especially in the realm of the easily accessible metaorganism research, visualization plays an essential role to keep complex processes understandable and memorable. Meet the Metaorganism is freely available online and can be accessed here: www.metaorganism.app.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37522605
doi: 10.1002/bies.202300043
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e2300043Informations de copyright
© 2023 The Authors. BioEssays published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.
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