Mello, Luciane V 
ORCID: 0000-0002-8632-1678, Tregilgas, Luke, Cowley, Gwen ORCID: 0000-0002-8505-1354, Gupta, Anshul, Makki, Fatima, Jhutty, Anjeet and Shanmugasundram, Achchuthan ORCID: 0000-0003-2349-6929
(2017)
'Students-as-partners' scheme enhances postgraduate students' employability skills while addressing gaps in bioinformatics education.
Higher education pedagogies, 2 (1).
pp. 43-57.
Abstract
Teaching bioinformatics is a longstanding challenge for educators who need to demonstrate to students how skills developed in the classroom may be applied to real world research. This study employed an action research methodology which utilised student-staff partnership and peer-learning. It was centred on the experiences of peer-facilitators, students who had previously taken a postgraduate bioinformatics module, and had applied knowledge and skills gained from it to their own research. It aimed to demonstrate to peer-receivers, current students, how bioinformatics could be used in their own research while developing peer-facilitators' teaching and mentoring skills. This student-centred approach was well received by the peer-receivers, who claimed to have gained improved understanding of bioinformatics and its relevance to research. Equally, peer-facilitators also developed a better understanding of the subject and appreciated that the activity was a rare and invaluable opportunity to develop their teaching and mentoring skills, enhancing their employability.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Bioinformatics, employability, peer-learning, postgraduate, students-as-partners |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Aug 2017 08:59 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Mar 2024 11:02 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/23752696.2017.1339287 |
| Open Access URL: | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/2375269... |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3008707 |
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