61605 20170628234247.0 doi 10.1128/jmbe.v17i3.1200 sideral 99453 ART-2016-99453 eng López-Goñi, Ignacio Twitter as a tool for teaching and communicating microbiology: the #micromoocsem initiative 2016 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Social networks are already being exploited for searching, storing, and sharing knowledge, demonstrating that they are an efficient vehicle for social learning. Consequently, they could be implemented as a competent tool for formal learning. Twitter is among the 10 most popular online social networks, integrating a community of over 500 million users around the world. Twitter has already been used in several educational programs and evaluated as a positive teaching experience with an outstanding potential in academic and educational environments (1–6). However, there are scarce examples available in the literature about its use in science teaching and communication. In this work, we present and analyze the application of Twitter to create an online space for communication and learning of basic microbiology. With this aim, a team of professionals in the field has imparted, to our knowledge, the first worldwide open access microbiology course via Twitter. Here we assess the results of our experience of using this social network as a tool for teaching, promoting, and communicating scientific knowledge to a wide audience. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Martínez-Viñas, M. José Antón, Josefa Cid, Víctor J. Martín González, Ana Brown-Jaque, Maryury García-Lobo, Juan M. Sánchez, Manuel Vilchez, Juan Ignacio Robledo-Mahón, Tatiana Seder-Colomina, Marina Tapia-Paniagua, Silvana Teresa Hernández De Rojas, Alma Mira, Alejandro Gallego-Parrilla, José Jesús López Díaz, Teresa María Maicas I Prieto, Sergi Villalobo, Eduardo Quindós, Guillermo Balboa, Sabela Romalde, Jesús L. (orcid)0000-0001-7438-9141 Aguilar-Pérez, Clara Universidad de Zaragoza Tomás, Anna Linares, María Zaragoza, Óscar Gil-Serna, Jéssica Ferrer-Espada, Raquel Camacho, Ana I. Vinué, Laura García-Lara, Jorge 1008 630 Universidad de Zaragoza Departamento de Microbiología, Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública Microbiología 17, 3 (2016), 492-494 J. microbiol. biol. educ. Journal of microbiology & biology education 1935-7877 461165 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/61605/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 132967 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/61605/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:61605 articulos driver 2017-06-28-09:47:41 ARTICLE