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#EUROmicroMOOC: the first microbiology course on Twitter

Can microbiology classes be taught on Twitter? Well, maybe or at least in what a group of institutions believes, including the University of Oxford, the Pasteur Institute in Paris , Stanford University and the Higher Council for Scientific Research, participating in #EUROmicroMOOC, an initiative to teach microbiology by tweet to students from around the world.The course will last seven weeks (from October 2 to October 15 November) and 21 professors and researchers from 18 institutions will participate, according to SINC.

Related Microbiology classes on Twitter will consist of launching a tweet per minute for approximately half an hour, one behind the other telling a complete story, "is like teaching a headline class" , says Ignacio Lopez-Goni (@microbioblog), Professor of Microbiology at the University of Navarra, who is a pioneer in this type of courses and One of the drivers of the project.The classes will include links, images, blogs, news, videos and infographics on science and microbiology


microbiology on Twitter in a rigorous and fun way


Lopez-Goni has been teaching with the hashtag #microMOOC for several years, an acronym that refers to Massive Open Online Course , which includes Dozens of links, images, blogs, news, videos and infographics on science and microbiology.The format will now be reproduced in #EUROmicroMOOC, to teach microbiology on Twitter.


"It is about providing rigorous information, but with a certain funny touch. It is not aimed at specialists, but at the general public with the desire to know a little more about science. They are classes via Twitter for thousands of people all over the world at the same time, "he concludes.

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