EdCrunch Award OOC Competition Honors Online Lectures by University Biologists

11:04, June 2, 2023

Third place went to the Introduction to Cell Biology course

The UrFU online course "Introduction to Cell Biology" won the third place in the international competition of open online courses EdCrunch Award OOC. The lectures are published on the Open Education platform and are intended for students with basic knowledge of biology.

"The course addresses issues related to one of the central areas of modern biology, cell biology. This is the first discipline in the cell biology line, which begins the education of biologists and medical doctors at the university," says Svetlana Zimnitskaya, Associate Professor, UrFU Faculty of Biology and Fundamental Medicine.

The aim of the course is to introduce students to the world of modern cell biology. According to the authors, cell biology is one of the fastest growing fields of modern science: in recent years, the Nobel Prize has been awarded four times for fundamental global discoveries in this field only, and private discoveries are made almost every day.

"The course will inform students about today's promising needs of biology, structural and functional organization of biological objects, mechanisms of homeostatic regulation, principles of cellular organization of biological objects, etc. The course is intended not only for students of "Biology" and " Fundamental Medicine", but also for applicants interested in cell biology and students of environmental sciences dealing with bioecology and biomonitoring", - explains the course co-author Alexander Ermoshin, Associate Professor, UrFU Department of Experimental Biology and Biotechnologies.

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The international competition of open online courses was initiated by the organizers of the Global Conference on New Educational Technologies EdCrunch. The purpose of the competition is to improve the quality of the educational system, including formal, non-formal and informal education, by introducing best practices in e-learning and distance learning technologies. Courses are evaluated with the participation of university faculty and students.

The news article was translated by UrFU International Marketing Office.
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Ural Federal University is one of the leading universities in Russia founded in 1920. UrFU is located in Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Ural region, an economic, industrial, scientific and cultural center of Russia. The university is the project office of the Ural Interregional Research and Education Center "Advanced Industrial Technologies and Materials" designed for solving tasks of "Science" National Project.