Today I went through tutorial videos of my students teaching their own group members. Every year Dr Yap Beow Keat would help run a CADD workshop for 2nd year students in FAR212 course. But we could only cater it for perhaps half the class (~60 students). So this year, we decided to ‘turn’ the learning and teaching over to each group. That each needs to create a tutorial video of Computer Aided Drug Design (CADD) teaching the techniques they learn in Dr Yap’s workshop to their own members.
We also want every student gets the opportunity to learn the visualisation of a drug and its receptor. Simply because it is quite straightforward and easy to do it using a laptop computer, as mentioned in my earlier blog post.
Additionally, the ability to visualise a drug and its receptor would provide perspectives in the third dimension. It’s like going diving – so many wonderful marine life that remain unseen, unless one learns how to dive.
That when one’s already a diver, it’s hard to go back to snorkelling 😉
Molecular modelling has transformed my world – how I view things around me. I learned this as a visiting research fellow at Prof. von Itzstein’s labs in Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast. Thus, I strongly feel these perspectives are important in a student’s learning, as they would help in ‘transforming’ how my students view the world of drugs and receptors.
And simply because the world is not flat.
So do the interactions of a drug and protein structures. There are so much things happening in our body that we tend to take for granted.
This assignment reminds me of a quote:
I was quite happy and so proud to see the outcome of the videos from my groups. Of course, my students have different styles of learning and teaching their own peers. It’s freestyle, I told them, and as long as the quality of videos is good – particularly the audio.
Sharing two examples of student’s CADD tutorial videos below:
And the following are a list of other tutorial videos:
Group 8 | https://youtu.be/6fDSjN4G2Dc (very patient trainer, with the alarm bell ringing in the background)
Group 9 | https://youtu.be/GZfjF0qsZCk
Group 12 | https://youtu.be/CSZv8778GCg (a real workshop!)
Now it’s my turn to learn from my students! 😀
And thanks so much Dr Yap!