using online interactive tutorials in teaching psychology and neuroscience at a distance trevor h....
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Using Online Interactive Tutorials in Teaching Psychology
and Neuroscience at a DistanceTrevor H. Gilbert, Ph.D.
Chair & Associate ProfessorCentre for PsychologyAthabasca University
An Overview• distance and online education
– flexibility
– educational materials >> learner engagement
• the challenge – classroom vs. distance
– psychology and neuroscience
• unique learning environment– interactive
– framework
Biological Tutorials
• BioTutorials– image-mapped tutorial– matching self-test– multiple choice self-test
• NeuroAnimations– interactive animated
learning objects– Flash technology
To our website…
web snapshots…
Part I: Imaged Mapped Tutorial
Part II: Matching Self-Test
Part III: Multiple Choice Self-Test
Another Example: Cerebral Cortex
Animated Tutorials…
NeuroAnimations
Sensation & Perception Tutorials
Summary
• enhance student understanding of essential neuroscientific principles
• develop mastery of key physiological mechanisms
• an indispensable tool• application
Questions?
Trevor Gilbert
Centre for Psychology
Athabasca University
Athabasca, Alberta, Canada
web: www.athabascau.ca
email: [email protected]
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