1. Subverting the Genetics Curriculum

2. DNA fingerprinting in the News! Personal genomics in the News! Blah blah blah... meiotic pairing and crossing over in a translocation heterozygote... restriction fragment length polymorphisms...blah blah blah 5 min 45 min Blah blah blah...dosage compensation in Drosophila... mapping genes using a three- factor testcross...blah blah blah 5 min 45 min

5. We’re teaching the wrong stuff! But this is what David Suzuki taught. But we’re training future geneticists. But we’re teaching critical thinking and problem- solving. Back home at UBC...

6. This video is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Useful Genetics Professor Rosie Redfield The University of British Columbia

8. My goals for Useful Genetics: Maximize the real value of the genetics students learn (value to students, beyond the university) No suitable textbook exists, so the course must be self- contained Minimize amount of background knowledge needed. Students should be able to explain what they’ve learned to others. Design as a replacement for existing second-year introductory genetics courses As a Coursera course: Open-book assessments– all require thinking about the material

9. Video lectures Practice quizzes Discussion forums Readings etc. Graded quizzes Peer-explains (Coursera system) Online exams Course components

10. What about 5’-5’ end-joining? Is this all the ends? Aren’t there really 7 ways? Can broken ends be joined to unbroken ones? Can they be joined upside down?

11. Genetics for Life A for-credit alternative to Fundamentals of Genetics

12. Must fill the same role in the curriculum: have the same prerequisites be acceptable as a prerequisite for the same courses. Relationship of Genetics for Life to Fundamentals of Genetics Plan: First teach as special section of Fundamentals of Genetics (demonstrate that it meets all important goals) Work with teaching fellow to ensure sufficient overlap of learning objectives and material taught Then set up next year as an independent course

13. A new genetics option for 2 nd -year biology students Standard ‘Fundamentals of Genetics’ sections (BIOL 234-101, 102 and 201): face-to-face lectures & tutorial focus on preparation for research New Genetics for Life section of BIOL 234: Available Fall 2014 (register for BIOL 234-103) short online video lectures face-to-face tutorial (2 hr, evening available) focus on roles of genetics in our lives. based on the UBC MOOC Useful Genetics satisfies all Biology Program requirements info at http://blogs.ubc.ca/geneticsforlife

14. The courses will run simultaneously: Useful Genetics students Video lectures Practice quizzes Discussion forums Readings etc. Graded quizzes Peer-explains (Coursera system) Online exams UBC Genetics for Life students Face-to-face tutorials (weekly, 2 hr) Graded quizzes Peer-explains (Calibrated Peer Review) Paper exams Biology Program

15. UBC: The Centre for Teaching and Learning Technology (Coursera support) The Flexible Learning Initiative The Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (course conversion support) Thanks to: Useful Genetics students