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Undergraduate Research in the Time of COVID-19: A Remote Imaging Protocol for Physically Distanced Students Studying Wildlife.
Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education Pub Date : 2021-03-31 , DOI: 10.1128/jmbe.v22i1.2485
Manuela Tripepi 1 , Tobias Landberg 2
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The COVID-19 pandemic has shuttered many university research labs because campuses are closed, and faculty and students lack productive ways of working remotely. This presents major difficulties for students who need research opportunities to fulfill their intellectual growth potential and their undergraduate research and thesis requirements. Without research experiences, undergraduates may be less competitive for future jobs and graduate programs. Similarly, faculty need research avenues to advance their academic careers while maintaining physically distant protocols. We outline here a budget-friendly, COVID-friendly, adaptable protocol that aims to introduce students to the wildlife research opportunities surrounding their campus or home through observation and literature research. Student researchers learn the scientific method by getting first-hand experience with an original research project. The pedagogical goals include designing a study: defining a question or proposing a hypothesis, collecting, organizing, and analyzing data, and sharing results in the form of posters, theses, informal educational materials, and scientific publications. This protocol is flexible to allow for different budgets, opportunities, and constraints. The researchers monitor different locations using trail cameras to determine which species are present around campus or even students' homes. During the COVID-19 pandemic, when it is likely there will be few in-person meetings, this protocol offers students the opportunity to carry out research with limited or no in-person meetings, and it can be run remotely by sharing the data collected. In this paper, we provide instructions, details, and student handouts for instructors to help implement this research project.

中文翻译:

COVID-19时代的本科生研究:一种用于远程学习野生动物的远程成像协议。

COVID-19大流行已经关闭了许多大学研究实验室,因为校园关闭了,教职员工缺乏远程工作的有效方式。这给需要研究机会以实现其智力增长潜力以及本科生研究和论文要求的学生带来了主要困难。没有研究经验,本科生在未来的工作和研究生课程中可能没有竞争力。同样,教师需要研究途径来发展他们的学术生涯,同时又要保持与身体距离遥远的协议。我们在这里概述了一种预算友好,COVID友好,适应性强的协议,旨在通过观察和文献研究向学生介绍校园或家园周围的野生动植物研究机会。学生研究人员通过获得原始研究项目的第一手经验来学习科学方法。教学目标包括设计研究:定义问题或提出假设,收集,组织和分析数据,并以海报,论文,非正式教育材料和科学出版物的形式共享结果。该协议很灵活,可以考虑不同的预算,机会和约束。研究人员使用跟踪摄像头监视不同的位置,以确定校园甚至学生住宅附近存在哪些物种。在COVID-19大流行期间,可能很少举行面对面会议,该协议为学生提供了机会进行有限或没有面对面会议的研究,并且可以通过共享收集的数据进行远程运行。
更新日期:2021-03-31
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