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. 2017 Jun 22:6:e26787.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.26787.

Promoting international collaboration and creativity in doctoral students

Christopher M Groen  1 , Cormac McGrath  2 , Katherine A Campbell  3 , Cecilia Götherström  4 , Anthony J Windebank  1 , Natalia Landázuri  5
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Promoting international collaboration and creativity in doctoral students

Christopher M Groen et al. Elife. .

Abstract

Staff from the Mayo Clinic in the US and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden describe a joint transatlantic course intended to broaden the horizons of the next generation of researchers in the field of regenerative medicine.

Keywords: Digital; Doctoral; Education; developmental biology; stem cells.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.. 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. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.26787.002
Figure 2.
Figure 2.. 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). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.26787.003
Figure 3.
Figure 3.. 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. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.26787.004
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