The Federation of Asian and Oceanian Biochemists and Molecular Biologists (FAOBMB) and the College of Biochemists of Sri Lanka (CBSL) organized a virtual education symposium in 2021 funded by the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB). The parallel session named “Students’ Perception” was attended by 188 participants from 11 countries. The main objectives of this session were to aggregate participants’ viewpoints on aspects of virtual education, including innovative strategies to enhance motivation and engagement of students, improving teacher–student and student–student interactions, managing stress, and virtual learning platforms. Data were collected via rapporteurs from multiple segments of the session including a mini-introductory talk, poll, role play, and discussions about outstanding student experiences, types of virtual platforms, innovative methods of teaching, student motivation and stress management. The importance of student perception and issues like technological difficulties and the reluctance of students to engage were discussed. In addition to well-established strategies such as using polls, chat box features, and discussions in breakout rooms, participants also proposed exciting learning methods to engage students such as quizzes, competitions and challenges, engagement of multiple sensory modalities, story-based learning, and so forth. This report provides anecdotal evidence on pedagogies described in textbooks and also introduces new ideas based on this existing foundation. Future research should aim to harmonize virtual education with traditional classroom methods and explore innovative virtual tools like avatar-based universities, virtual labs, and user-friendly online assessment platforms. The results apply to all disciplines, and not exclusively to biochemistry and molecular biology (BMB).

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学生对在线教育的看法：FAOBMB-IUBMB-CBSL 2021 年虚拟教育研讨会的一场会议

亚洲和大洋洲生物化学家和分子生物学家联合会 (FAOBMB) 和斯里兰卡生物化学家学院 (CBSL) 于 2021 年组织了一次虚拟教育研讨会，由国际生物化学和分子生物学联合会 (IUBMB) 资助。来自11个国家的188名与会者参加了题为“学生的感知”的平行会议。本次会议的主要目标是汇总参与者对虚拟教育各方面的观点，包括增强学生动机和参与度的创新策略、改善师生和学生与学生的互动、管理压力和虚拟学习平台。报告员从会议的多个部分收集数据，包括小型介绍性演讲、民意调查、角色扮演以及关于杰出学生体验、虚拟平台类型、创新教学方法、学生动机和压力管理的讨论。讨论了学生认知的重要性以及技术困难和学生不愿参与等问题。除了使用民意调查、聊天框功能和分组讨论等既定策略外，参与者还提出了令人兴奋的学习方法来吸引学生，例如测验、竞赛和挑战、多种感官模式的参与、基于故事的学习、等等。本报告提供了教科书中描述的教学法的轶事证据，并基于现有基础引入了新的想法。未来的研究应该致力于协调虚拟教育与传统课堂方法，并探索创新的虚拟工具，例如基于虚拟形象的大学、虚拟实验室和用户友好的在线评估平台。结果适用于所有学科，而不仅仅是生物化学和分子生物学 (BMB)。