STEM curricula often prepare students with fundamental knowledge, allowing students to have strong backgrounds in technical concepts. However, upper-level students may lack the ability to critically analyze primary research articles, which is important for understanding the current state of the field. Journal clubs can be used within the classroom to facilitate discussion of recent work and teach students to critically analyze research and data. Traditional journal clubs (JCs) are conducted in face-to-face classrooms and consist of presentations and discussions. It is possible to adapt these techniques to form virtual Journal Clubs (vJCs) when courses are taught fully online; however, student engagement is often lacking and can lead to less knowledge gained in vJCs. In this article, we summarize several key teaching tips and best practices which we used to increase student engagement in vJCs. We found that vJCs, compared to JCs, equally increased student perceptions of their skills in reading, analyzing, and critiquing scientific literature and decreased their perceived levels of stress and frustration.

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促进期刊俱乐部参与在线高年级本科课程。

STEM课程通常为学生提供基础知识的准备，从而使他们具有扎实的技术概念背景。但是，高年级学生可能缺乏批判性地分析主要研究论文的能力，这对于理解该领域的当前状态很重要。可以在教室内使用期刊俱乐部来促进对最近工作的讨论，并教学生批判性地分析研究和数据。传统期刊俱乐部（JC）在面对面的教室中进行，包括演讲和讨论。当完全在线教授课程时，可以使这些技术适应以形成虚拟期刊俱乐部（vJC）；但是，通常缺乏学生参与度，这会导致在vJC中获得的知识减少。在本文中，我们总结了一些主要的教学技巧和最佳实践，这些技巧和最佳实践用于提高学生在vJC中的参与度。我们发现，与JC相比，vJC可以提高学生对其阅读，分析和批判科学文献技能的认识，并降低他们的压力和沮丧感。