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Blended Instruction Case Studies: Life Sciences
A lower-division Life Sciences class uses online lectures to help understand how the lab techniques they are learning apply to upper-division bioinformatics and genome sequencing work they will conduct later in their academic careers.
For this Blended Instruction Case Studies (BICS) project, online lectures will be used to familiarize Life Science 3 students with the lab techniques and bioinformatics work conducted by upper division Life Sciences students as part of a genome sequencing project.
A detailed description of the project can be found here.
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To sequence a genome, the genome must be fragmented into many pieces (similar to tearing all of the pages out of a book) because one can only read one page at a time.
Project involves students interacting in five courses. The BICs proposal extends the experience of DNA gel analysis to LS3 students.
An example of a typical 21st century lab experiment—in which software-based analysis and visualization has taken the place of the tools and data we used to analyze “by hand”
Note: Lecture development remains in progress.
