Integrating remote international experience and community engagement into course-based animal behavior research.

ABSTRACT: Human-centered, active-learning approaches can help students develop core competencies in biology and other STEM fields, including the ability to conduct research, use quantitative reasoning, communicate across disciplinary boundaries, and connect science education to pressing social and environmental challenges. Promising approaches for incorporating active learning into biology courses include the use of course-based research, community engagement, and international experiences. Disruption to higher education due to the COVID-19 pandemic made each of these approaches more challenging or impossible to execute. Here, we describe a scalable course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) for an animal behavior course that integrates research and community engagement in a remote intern

SUBMITTER: Kay AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9831970 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature