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.

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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).

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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.

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  1. Christopher M Groen
  2. Cormac McGrath
  3. Katherine A Campbell
  4. Cecilia Götherström
  5. Anthony J Windebank
  6. Natalia Landázuri
(2017)
Cutting Edge: Promoting international collaboration and creativity in doctoral students
eLife 6:e26787.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.26787