Table 1.
Schedule of the 2-week course.
Fig 1.
Toy metabolic model analysed during Monday.
Metabolites are represented as boxes, and reactions are depicted as arrows. The toy network contains 3 metabolites (A, B, and C) and 5 reactions (v1 to v5).
Fig 2.
Chloroplast carbon metabolism model analysed on Tuesday.
Medium-sized model where metabolites are represented as text and reactions as arrows. The model was adapted from [10].
Table 2.
Course assignments criteria and evaluation.
Table 3.
Overview of selected student projects in the PBL of week 2 of the 2020 and 2021 course editions.
Fig 3.
Student’s course evaluation scores for the academic year 2018 to 2019.
The Advanced Systems Biology II course (number 7, in yellow) has been the most appreciated by the student’s population. MISB, Master in Integrated Systems Biology.
Table 4.
Evaluation form and results of Advanced Systems Biology II course, edition 2018 to 2019.
Fig 4.
(A) Overall student’s grades per evaluation method: The highest scores are obtained by the students in the final project, meaning that the PBL approach has a good impact on their performances. (B) Comparison of students’ grades per course edition: The graph shows a year-by-year improvement in students’ performances, which, in our opinion, also stands for the quality of the teaching improvement, including the course’s methods and contents. PBL, project-based learning.