Short-term research projects in cognitive neuroscience for undergraduate students: a contingency plan to maintain quality teaching during COVID-19 pandemic.
Adv Physiol Educ
; 45(2): 376-383, 2021 Jun 01.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1219395
ABSTRACT
The Corona Virus Disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic has imposed serious restrictions for academic institutions to maintain their research and teaching practical subjects. Universities have implemented adaptive measures to maintain educational activities and achieve the learning objectives for undergraduate and postgraduate students by shifting to online teaching and learning. Although such approaches have enabled delivering the theoretical content of courses during the pandemic, universities have faced serious difficulties in running practicals with actual research experiments and teaching hand-on skills because such activities potentially override the required safety guidelines. Here, we report an adaptive measure, implemented at Monash University, to run home-based studies in cognitive neuroscience and achieve learning objectives, which are normally delivered in face-to-face practicals. We introduce two specifically designed short-term research projects and describe how different aspects of these projects, such as tutorials, experiments, and assessments, were modified to meet the required social distancing. The results of cognitive tests were closely comparable between the laboratory-based and home-based experiments indicating that students followed the guidelines and the required procedures for a reliable data collection. Our assessments of students' performance and feedback indicate that the majority of our educational goals were achieved, while all safety guidelines and distancing requirements were also met.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Education, Distance
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Biomedical Research
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Pandemics
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Cognitive Neuroscience
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Adv Physiol Educ
Journal subject:
Education
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Physiology
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Advan.00012.2021
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