Authentic teaching and learning through synthetic biology
Synthetic biology is an emerging engineering discipline that, if successful, will allow well-characterized biological components to be predictably and reliably built into robust organisms that achieve specific functions. Fledgling efforts to design and implement a synthetic biology curriculum for un...
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| author | Kuldell, Natalie |
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| description | Synthetic biology is an emerging engineering discipline that, if successful, will allow well-characterized biological components to be predictably and reliably built into robust organisms that achieve specific functions. Fledgling efforts to design and implement a synthetic biology curriculum for undergraduate students have shown that the co-development of this emerging discipline and its future practitioners does not undermine learning. Rather it can serve as the lynchpin of a synthetic biology curriculum. Here I describe educational goals uniquely served by synthetic biology teaching, detail ongoing curricula development efforts at MIT, and specify particular aspects of the emerging field that must develop rapidly in order to best train the next generation of synthetic biologists. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/587112022-09-28T09:28:15Z Authentic teaching and learning through synthetic biology Kuldell, Natalie Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering Kuldell, Natalie Synthetic biology is an emerging engineering discipline that, if successful, will allow well-characterized biological components to be predictably and reliably built into robust organisms that achieve specific functions. Fledgling efforts to design and implement a synthetic biology curriculum for undergraduate students have shown that the co-development of this emerging discipline and its future practitioners does not undermine learning. Rather it can serve as the lynchpin of a synthetic biology curriculum. Here I describe educational goals uniquely served by synthetic biology teaching, detail ongoing curricula development efforts at MIT, and specify particular aspects of the emerging field that must develop rapidly in order to best train the next generation of synthetic biologists. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alumni Funds for Excellence in Education d'Arbeloff Fund for Excellence in Education 2010-09-24T18:52:34Z 2010-09-24T18:52:34Z 2007-12 2007-07 2010-09-03T16:23:14Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1754-1611 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58711 Journal of Biological Engineering. 2007 Dec 27;1(1):8 18271945 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9483-1291 en http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1754-1611-1-8 Journal of Biological Engineering Creative Commons Attribution http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 Kuldell et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. application/pdf BioMed Central Ltd BioMed Central Ltd |
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