Metabolism and its regulation is one of the most complex and difficult topics
for students learning biochemistry. A problem-/case-based learning (PBL)
approach can be useful to help biochemistry students to fulfill the goal of
acquiring an integrated view of metabolism and its regulation. The present
article describes our experience enrolling volunteer students to learn glycogen
metabolism making use of a design-based research methodology to develop
teaching learning sequences focused on a PBL approach. Enrolled undergraduate
students had better final scores than those students that did not participates.
Furthermore, enrolled students were satisfied with the experience,
finding it interesting, formative, and challenging.
