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      Teaching in the time of COVID‐19

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      Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education
      John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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          As COVID‐19 sweeps the globe colleges and universities are opting to suspend face‐to‐face lectures and laboratories as a step to slow the spread of this disease. Rather than cancel their courses many instructors are working to deliver content and assess learning via distance learning and online pedagogies. As this shift to online may be occurring midsemester and somewhat unexpectedly, instructors and curriculum designers are struggling to make the transition quickly and smoothly. The urgency of the situation is not a call for lowering standards or changing learning outcomes. Rather, it is an opportunity to revisit our courses with a focus on the critical learning outcomes. When I started teaching online after many years in a traditional classroom, I discovered that creating coursework for an online setting is not a transcriptional process, in which only the medium by which the content delivery differed, but a translational one in which I needed to use an entirely different set of tools. For example, while creating video lecture captures or transcribing the text of the lectures may be the quickest way to make the transition, in the long‐term instructors may consider using readings from a variety of sources; relatively brief written, audio or video “mini‐lectures”; different textbooks, open educational resources, and other content sources; and importantly, building in frequent assessments with rapid feedback. Delivering laboratory content via online modalities can be especially challenging. Moving it online may be an opportunity to reconfigure an experience that often requires that students focus much of their efforts on data collection, to one that emphasizes hypothesis formulation, experimental design, and data analysis. It is possible that when this crisis passes some of the insights gained in moving courses online will be useful in enhancing learning in traditional settings. To help educators transition to online teaching, we have compiled a virtual issue of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education (BAMBEd) articles that may serve as useful resources for BMB educators who are converting their face‐to‐face courses to the online modality. This virtual collection also marks BAMBEd's commitment to continue to expand this knowledge base and to make new resources available to the community of educators quickly. To that end, we welcome brief rapid communications1 from educators on creative and innovative approaches. In addition, we also welcome submissions by the leadership of professional organizations as they make statements of educational priorities and offer guidance to the field.

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          Contributors
          editor@bambed.net
          Journal
          Biochem Mol Biol Educ
          Biochem Mol Biol Educ
          10.1002/(ISSN)1539-3429
          BMB
          Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education
          John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (Hoboken, USA )
          1470-8175
          1539-3429
          02 April 2020
          : 10.1002/bmb.21348
          Affiliations
          [ 1 ] Editor‐in‐Chief, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, and State University of New York Albany New York
          Author notes
          [*] [* ] Correspondence

          Phillip A. Ortiz, PhD, Editor‐in‐Chief, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, and State University of New York, Albany, New York. Email: editor@ 123456bambed.net

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          https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1497-8558
          Article
          BMB21348
          10.1002/bmb.21348
          7228309
          32239800
          0a807a55-e216-490d-a0cf-d5be6b1bff1c
          © 2020 International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

          This article is being made freely available through PubMed Central as part of the COVID-19 public health emergency response. It can be used for unrestricted research re-use and analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source, for the duration of the public health emergency.

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          : 20 March 2020
          : 20 March 2020
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