Cutting Edge: Promoting international collaboration and creativity in doctoral students
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The components and strategies used in the course “Regenerative Medicine: Principles to Practice”.
(A) Schematic illustration of off-class online work and in-class learning sessions. (B) Learning strategies used in the course design.

Student evaluations of the effectiveness of the collaborative course.
(A) Students ranked the extent to which course components helped them develop creative research/scientific ideas on a scale from 1 to 6 (1=lowest, 6=highest). Mean rankings from students from both institutions (ALL, 13 respondents), from KI (7 respondents), and from MC (6 respondents) are reported as mean ± standard deviation. JC: journal club. (B) Students ranked the extent to which email and Blackboard were effective for student-student interactions (1=lowest, 6=highest).

Student evaluations of the quality of the collaborative course.
Students ranked the quality of scientific presentations, as well as their level of interaction with speakers and students, on a scale from 1 to 6 (1=lowest, 6=highest). Rankings for their own institution and for their partner institution are presented separately.