Propelling a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience Using an Open-Access Online Undergraduate Research Journal.

ABSTRACT: The University of British Columbia has developed a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) that engages students in authentic molecular microbiology research. This capstone course is uniquely built around an open-access online undergraduate research journal entitled Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology (UJEMI). Students work in teams to derive an original research question, formulate a testable hypothesis, draft a research proposal, carry out experiments in the laboratory, and publish their results in UJEMI. The CURE operates in a feed forward manner whereby student-authored UJEMI publications drive research questions in subsequent terms of the course. Progress toward submission of an original manuscript is scaffolded using a series of communicati

SUBMITTER: Sun E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7719674 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature