Technologies in Biomedical and Life Sciences Education

This contributed volume focuses on understanding the educational strengths and weaknesses of mediated content (including media as a learning supplement), in comparison to traditional face-to-face learning. Each chapter includes research on, and a broad-brush summary of, approaches to combining life sciences education with educational technologies.

The chapters are organized into four main sections, each of which focuses on a key question regarding the consequences of incorporating media into education. In this regard, the authors highlight how educational technology is both a bridge and barrier to student access and inclusivity. Further, they address the ongoing discussion as to whether students need to be present for lectures, and on how having agency in their own learning can improve both retention and conceptual understanding. To link the content to current events, the authors also shed light on the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the continuity of educational programs and on the growing importance of educational technologies.

Consequently, the book offers life science educators valuable guidance on the technologies already available, and an outlook on what is yet to come.

Auteur

Harry J. Witchel, Ph.D.Dr. Harry J. Witchel is Discipline Leader in Physiology on the University of Sussex site of Brightonand Sussex Medical School (UK). His team's interdisciplinary research within the Department ofNeuroscience there resulted in his students winning the Best Research Paper Award at theinternational ECCE conference (2019); he also researches and innovates on educational topicsrevolving around human computer interaction and assessment. He has received over 15teaching awards and recognitions, including three at the national level: from the British ScienceAssociation, the Physiological Society, and most recently a National Teaching Fellowship fromAdvanceHE (2021). He is a long-standing member of the Physiological Society, where hecurrently serves on the Education, Public Engagement and Policy Committee. His teachingqualification is as a Senior Fellow (Higher Education Academy); he received his A.B. (College) inBiophysics from Columbia University (New York), and his Ph.D. from the Department ofPhysiology-Anatomy at the University of California at Berkeley. Michael W. Lee, Ph.D.Dr. Michael W. Lee received his Masters and Doctoral degrees in Medical Science, with a focuson Medical Pharmacology, from the Morsani College of Medicine at the University of SouthFlorida. This was followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Florida College ofMedicine at the Shands Cancer Center. He has served as a founding faculty member at severalpharmacy and medical schools where he has trained students both in the classroom and in thelaboratory. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin DellMedical School in the departments of Medical Education and Oncology. He is also an AssociateMember at the Live Strong Cancer Institutes. His research interests center around delineatingmolecular mechcnisms of therapeutic agents for cancer and on development of noveleducational technology tools for enhancing basic science learning. He has received numerousawards for teaching including a Golden Apple (2011), a Recognition of Innovation award (2011),and he has been awarded excellence in teaching awards three consecutive years (2019, 2020,and 2021). In 2020 he was awarded the designation of Distinguished Teaching Professor,following admittance into the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School Academy ofDistinguished Educators. He is an active member of the International Association of MedicalScience Educators (IAMSE), the American Physiological Society (APS), and he serves on theeditorial board of the journal Pharmacology Research and Perspectives.

Contenu

Technologies in Biomedical and Life Sciences Education:

Approaches and Evidence of Efficacy for Learning

Contents

Part 1: Introduction and Educational Context

1. Introduction: Intentional Innovation in Educational Technology and Media to

Promote Students' Holistic Development

Michael W. Lee & Harry J. Witchel

2. Technology, Equity and Inclusion in the Virtual Education Space

Cynthia Taylor, Bryan Dewsbury, Cynthia Brame

3. Institutional Culture of Student Empowerment: Redefining the Roles of Students and

Technology

Heeyoung Han, Maria Mosley, Ilhuoma (Yvette) Igbokwe, Shelley Tischkau

4. From Psychology Laboratory to Student Development: Untangling Momentary

Engagement from Longer-term Engagement in Bioscience Education

Harry J Witchel, Rudi Klein, Puspha Sinnayah, Joseph Rathner

Part 2: How Educational Technologies Shape the Classroom Experience

5. Perceptual Learning, Adaptive Learning, and Gamification: Educational

Technologies for Pattern Recognition, Problem Solving and Knowledge Retention in

Medical Learning

Philip J. Kellman, Victoria Jacoby, Christine Massey & Sally Krasne

6. The Flipped Classroom: A Guide to Making Evidence-Based Decisions about

Implementation

Michael W. Lee and Andrew C. Butler

7. Supplementary Videos in the Biosciences: How Stakeholders Can Reinforce Complex Concepts for Self-Directed Learners

Richard Guy & Harry J. Witchel

8. Aligning assessment goals with the current and future technologies needed to achieve

them

Melanie M. Cooper & Michael W. Klymkowsky

9. The Use of Video, Audio and E-portfolios to Provide Feedback

Sabine G. Uijl & Renée M. Filius

10. Academic Cheating: How Can We Detect and Discourage It?

John C. McLachlan & Izabella Penier

Part 3: How Educational Technologies Transcend the Classroom

11. DEBATE PART 1: Attendance and Performance: a New Landscape in the Era of

Online Teaching

Louise Robson & Christine A. Kauffman

12. DEBATE PART 2: Lecture Capture, Attendance and Exam Performance in the

Biosciences: Exploring Rare Exceptions to the Link Between Attendance and

Performance in the Era of Online Teaching

Harry J. Witchel, Richard Guy, Christopher Torrens, Kenneth Langlands, Sheila A.

Doggrell

13. Online Science Education at Scale: Open and Distance Learning, MOOCS, and

Other Learning Assets for Theory and Practice

Peter Alston, Terry L. Gleave, Mark C. Hirst, and Hilary A. MacQueen

14. Social Online Learning: Leveraging Social Media and Web-Based Co-Creation to

Drive Learning

Emma Rengasamy and Duncan Cole

15. The Role of Educational Technology on Mitigating the Impact of the COVID-19

Pandemic on Teaching and Learning

Sandra Arango-Caro, Lisa L. Walsh, Emma R. Wester, and Kristine Callis-Duehl

Part 4: The Future and Research

16. The Unpredictable Future of High Fidelity Patient Simulation in Biomedical Science

Education: the Price Must Be Right

David M. Harris and Daniel Franceschini

17. The Future with Extended Reality, Three-dimensional and Advanced Imaging for

Molecules, Microscopy and Anatomy

John Barrow

18. The Future of Biomedical and Life Sciences Education: Evidence-based Future

Directions

Kristina Lisk, Maria Mylopoulos, Nicole N. Woods