A faculty team works to create content linkages among various courses to increase meaningful learning of targeted concepts of microbiology

CBE Life Sciences Education

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 155-162

  Marbach Ad, Gili ^a,b   Briken, Volker ^a   Frauwirth, Kenneth ^a   Gao, Lian Yong ^a   Hutcheson, Steven W ^a   Joseph, Sam W ^a   Mosser, David ^a   Parent, Beth ^a   Shields, Patricia ^a   Song, Wenxia ^a   Stein, Daniel C ^a   Swanson, Karen ^a   Thompson, Katerina V ^c   Yuan, Robert ^a   Smith, Ann C ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; TEACHING; UNIVERSITY;

CURRICULUM; FACULTY; FEEDBACK; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LEARNING; MICROBIOLOGY; TEACHING;

EID: 34250794522     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19317913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1187/cbe.06-12-0212     Document Type: Article

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