Summary of how we developed an authentic programming environment using the tools and methods a Clinical Bioinformatician would use

1. Embedding skills for a new profession by teaching
programming in an immersive and authentic
environment

2. Pedagogy
Introduction to Programming
Tools
Clinical Bioinformatics – our students
Authentic & Immersive environment
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5 Back to Practice

3. Mixed abilities in programming
Introduction to Programming
Support community of practice
Many backgrounds coming into
the field
Off campus
Learners
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4. Authentic & Immersive
User stories from
practice
Group-work
Reflection
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5. Pedagogy
Problem solvingSocial learning Situated learning
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6. Jupyter Notebooks
Tools
Slack GitHub
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7. Back to Practice
• VariantValidator
• Emulate professional practice.
• Co-creation
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8. …excellent overview of the
different methodologies and
languages and resources that
are key to bioinformatics
Student Feedback
“Beverly’s feedback of the course/’’/
https://youtu.be/TiIEyEeNiaU
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… I also really enjoyed the
group projects and have even
made some friendships that
will last beyond the course
Sreedhar’s presentation from the course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-YwweY2K-
4&feature=youtu.be&hd=1
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9. Thank you for listening
frances.hooley@manchester.ac.uk
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/masters/courses/list/12099/pgcert-
clinical-bioinformatics/