Two researchers from the University of Granada , belonging to the Water Institute, will participate as professors in the first free online world course via Twitter on microbiology, organized and coordinated by the Microbiology Teaching and Diffusion group of the Spanish Society of Microbiology (SEM ).
Juan Ignacio Vílchez and Tatiana Robledo will teach the Soil and Water Microbiology modules, respectively, on April 21 and 26. This course via Twitter begins today, Tuesday, April 5, and will be taught on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 10 p.m. (Spanish time) until next June 2.
29 professors and researchers from 20 universities and research centers in Spain and the United States participate in the initiative, and it is the first course organized through this social network by a scientific society.
In addition to the UGR, the course includes the University of Barcelona, the University of Navarra, the University of Alicante, the University of Cantabria, the Complutense University of Madrid, the Miguel Hernández University, the University of the Basque Country, the University of Malaga, the University of León, the University of Valencia, University of Seville, University of Santiago de Compostela, University of Zaragoza, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spanish Institute of Oceanography, Higher Center for Public Health Research-FISABIO Foundation, Hospital Doce de Octubre-CNIO, National Center for Microbiology and Massachusetts General Hospital of Boston (United States).
With a simple, informative and very visual language, the objective of this online course is to reach many different people and spread basic concepts and notions about microbiology. It is aimed primarily at high school students, high school teachers, university students, science professionals, science journalists and the general public.
The initiative consists of teaching microbiology classes via Twitter. These “classes” are a set of 30-40 tweets of microbiological content. In this way, content, websites, links, news, images or videos on scientific topics related to the world of microbiology are shared.
The "classes" will last about half an hour and will be sent at a specific time and day of the week. The students are summoned through social networks. Each day a different topic will be discussed, from what is a virus to malaria or resistance to antibiotics.
Together, it constitutes an entire free massive online course (MOOC, massive online open course) via Twitter and can be followed by anyone with a Twitter account. To do this, you only need to connect to Twitter on the day and time indicated and follow the "class" with the hashtag #microMOOCSEM. The classes will be sent through the SEM Twitter account @SEMicrobiologia.
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