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#EUROmicroMOO Trends in Microbiology by Twitter

THE FIRST WORLDWIDE ONLINE OPEN ACCES MICROBIOLOGY COURSE VIA TWITTER
  • The EUROmicroMOOC is a project of the Spanish Society for Microbiology (SEM) started with support from FEMS. It has been the first world-wide open access microbiology course delivered through Twitter.
  • It runs from 2 October to 15 November in 2018, with three topics every week. 21 enthusiastic teachers provided instruction and learning coordinated around the hashtag: #EUROmicroMOOC
  • In this context “micro” acknowledges both the subject under focus, microbiology, and also the small 280-character format of a tweet, whereas “MOOC” stands for Massive Online Open Course.
  • The lectures were each divided their into 30-40 tweet sized statements, with links to webpages, blogs, news, and plenty of images and videos. Each lesson started at 17:00 UCT/GMT+2 on the day of that course, the tweets went out at a rate of 1 tweet per minute.
For the 2018 eddition:
  • 21 courses, by 21 professors, from 18 institutions, in 9 countries across the world
  • tweets were sent from the @SEMicrobiologia Twitter account
  • each course consists of 30-40 tweet sized statements that were posted at a rate of 1 tweet every minute
  • all classes are in English and the tweets stored online using the open tool Wakelet
#EUROmicroMOOC exceeded all expectations:

During the course #EUROmicroMOOC was posted for more than 3 million of unique users and reached more than 47 millions of twitter impressions

List of the topics

University of Oxford, the Institute Pasteur in Paris, Stanford University, CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), were some of the eighteen international universities and research centres which collaborated in the first worldwide open access Microbiology course online via Twitter. A total of twenty-one professors and researchers used this social network as a tool for teaching and communicate scientific knowledge. With a frequency of three classes per week, each lesson addressed a different topic. For instance, Marta Cortesao, from the German Aerospace Center-DLR will talk about space microbiology, or Jorge García-Lara, from University of Central Lancashire (UK) about the microbial path to cancer. Vaccines and antivax, antimicrobial resistance, gut microbiota, pathogens or microbiological warfare were also some of the topics that were discussed during the course.

List of teachers that participate in #EUROmicroMOOC 2018
#EUROmicroMOOC: exploring microbiology

Where I can find all these lessons?

Slides, web links, photos, graphics, videos...

Now all the material used for #EUROmicroMOOC 2018 lessons is freely available at Wakelet where it can be read, share or downloaded as pdf files.

List of the 21 lessons and their links:

EUROmicroMOOC was coordinated by:

Dr. Ignacio López-Goñi (@microbioblog).Catedrático de Microbiología, Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología. Universidad de Navarra 31008 – Pamplona - España. Director del Museo de Ciencias

Teachers:

  1. Tarsha Sturm (@tasturm1) Cabrillo College (USA).
  2. Jenny-Lee Thomassin (@JennyThomassin) Institut Pasteur (France)
  3. Akos T. Kovacs (@EvolvedBiofilm) DTU Bioengineering (Denmark)
  4. Elisa Granato (@Prokaryota) University of Oxford (England)
  5. Marta Cotesao (@martacortesao) German Aerospace Center-DLR (Germany)
  6. Joaquin Giner-Lamia (@Ginerorama) Centro de Biotecnologia y Genomica de Plantas-CBGP (Spain)
  7. Avelino Alvarez-Ordoñez (@MetaResistantB) University of León (Spain)
  8. Thibault Sana (@ThibGSana) Stanford University (USA)
  9. Dennis Claessen (@ClassenLAB) Leiden University (The Netherlands)
  10. Wiep Klaas Smits (@SmitsLab) Leiden University (The Netherlands)
  11. Andrea Dreusch (@MicroMol_Lab) MicroMol GmbH Laboratory (Germany)
  12. Daniel García (@SoyBiotec) University of Salamanca (Spain)
  13. Ignacio López-Goñi (@microbioblog) University of Navarra (Spain)
  14. Alfonso Benitez-Paez (@alfbenpa) Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de Alimentos IATA-CSIC (Spain)
  15. María del Toro Hernando (@Miss_Salmonella) Fundación Rioja Salud (Spain)
  16. Kris Niño G. Valdehuesa (@krisnino86) Myongji University (South Korea)
  17. Manuel Sánchez (@ManoloSanchezA) University of Miguel Hernández (Spain)
  18. Jesus L. Romalde (@baylorete / @gimikrobios) University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
  19. Marta Zapotoczna (@MartaZapotoczna) Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Science (Poland)
  20. Jorge Garcia-Lara (@GarciaLaraClan) University of Central Lancashire (UK)
  21. Félix Sangari (@LaMicroMola) Instituto de Biomedicina y Biotecnologia IBBTEC (Spain)

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Citation

#EUROmicroMOOC: using Twitter to share trends in Microbiology worldwide (2019) FEMS Microbiol Lett.

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