The online environment poses a number of challenges, including creating opportunities for students to interact and get to know each other. I propose adding online discussions that can allow students to explore the real-world implications of biochemistry to provide course context, build the classroom community, diversify student assessment, and practice communication and information literacy skills. Utilizing current events and elements of students' daily lives can help students interconnect what they are learning and increase student interest in the course. These discussions ask students to explore a topic, reflect on what they would like to learn, find information, and report back on what they have learned. Herein I provide an example of a discussion prompt, a table of other potential discussion topics that are aligned with common biochemistry course topics, and results from student survey supporting discussion format.

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生物化学在线讨论，以增加同伴互动和学生兴趣

在线环境带来了许多挑战，包括为学生创造互动和相互了解的机会。我建议增加在线讨论，让学生探索生物化学对现实世界的影响，以提供课程背景、建立课堂社区、使学生评估多样化，并练习沟通和信息素养技能。利用时事和学生日常生活的元素可以帮助学生将他们所学的知识相互联系起来，并提高学生对课程的兴趣。这些讨论要求学生探索一个主题，反思他们想学什么，查找信息，并报告他们学到的东西。这里我提供一个讨论提示的例子，