Welcome to the Digital Marine website. The DigitalMarine project is a strategic
partnership funded by the Erasmus+ programme, bringing together six
universities and institutes. Its aim is to develop an online learning platform
dedicated to the use of marine organisms in life science.
For students in the Schmid Training Course, this online platform will be combined with
a practical course taking place in a marine station.
And this way of teaching, mixing online and in-person sessions,
is called hybrid and/or blended learning. The organisation of experimental courses
has been a long tradition in the Station Biologique de Roscoff, the Schmid Training
Course is one of them and it is presenting a wide diversity of marine organisms,
for example brown algae and marine bacteria, but also metazoans such as
crustaceans, sponges, placozoans, cephalochordates, sharks, et cetera.
It is presented in this course how they are useful in different fields of developmental
biology, of biology in general: neurobiology, developmental biology, cell biology, and
also evo-devo or eco-evo-devo. They are also useful to study questions related to
regeneration and stem cells, cell cycle regulation, life cycle,
cellular morphogenesis, and also symbiotic relationships.
So, this practical course has run for many years
and we decided to transform the learning experience.
You will find on this website for each model an online companion resource for the Schmid
Training Course. Virtual labs, video lectures, interviews with researchers, animations,
and scientific literature. This online resource will allow you to familiarise
yourself with the different models and topics before coming to the Schmid Training Course.
So as you have the basic knowledge before coming to the Schmid Training Course
through this online module, we can have more time for practical lab work and we
can increase opportunities to speak with the different instructors. You will have also
more time to tackle conceptual questions related to academic research.
You will also find on the DigitalMarine website the complete history of the
Schmid Training Course, the biographies of your instructors and researchers who
are participating, and the names of the institutions and universities involved in
this project. Enjoy the DigitalMarine website, and see you soon!