Active Learning and Technology Approaches for Teaching Immunology to Undergraduate Students.

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Autor/Urheber	Sharon A. Stranford; Judith A. Owen; Frances Mercer; Roberta R. Pollock
Institution	Frontiers Media S.A.
Titel	Active Learning and Technology Approaches for Teaching Immunology to Undergraduate Students.
Quelle	In: 2296-2565; doi:10.3389/fpubh.2020.00114; Frontiers in Public Health, Vol 8 (2020)(2020) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI	10.3389/fpubh.2020.00114
Schlagwörter	active learning; concept maps; immunology education; just-in-time teaching; student-centered learning; technology in education; Public aspects of medicine
Abstract	Immunology is a fascinating and extremely complex field, with natural connections to many disciplines both within STEM and beyond. Teaching an undergraduate course in immunology therefore provides both opportunities and challenges. Significant challenges to student learning include mastering the volume of new vocabulary and figuring out how to think coherently about a physiological system that is so anatomically disseminated. More importantly, teaching immunology can be complicated because it requires students to integrate knowledge derived from prior introductory courses in a range of fields, including cell biology, biochemistry, anatomy and genetics. However, this also provides an opportunity to use the study of the immune system as a platform on which students can assemble and integrate foundational STEM knowledge, while also learning about a new and exciting field. Pedagogical theory has taught us that students learn best by engaging with complicated questions and by thinking metacognitively about how to approach solutions. Building this skill set in today's students, who now hail from a broad demographic and who are accustomed to acquiring their knowledge from a variety of different media, requires a new set of teaching tools. Using perspectives from four different immunology educators, we describe a range of student-centered, active learning approaches that have been field-tested in a number of different immunology classrooms and that are geared to a variety of learning styles. In this paper, we explore the hypothesis that active learning approaches to immunology improve comprehension and retention by increasing student engagement in class and their subsequent mastery of complex topics.
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