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Humanity in remote physiology teaching: Creating a connect and interactivity during covid-19 pandemic
Biomedical and Biopharmaceutical Research ; 17(2):280-281, 2020.
Article in English | EMBASE | ID: covidwho-1771987
ABSTRACT

Introduction:

Humanity due to COVID-19 is experiencing a complex moment without historical precedents which demands an embracing reflection about teaching and learning process. Human physiology is the science that studies the functioning of the human body;therefore, it is a highly complex discipline, inherent to human existence challenging professor and students in remote learning.

Objective:

To share the experience and strategies used to foster the bond and interactivity during remote human physiology discipline offered to undergraduate students in biology, biomedicine, nursing and medical physics at Unesp in Botucatu.

Methods:

Since the suspension of presential activities, the professor established communication by email with the classes (133 students) aiming at welcoming and maintaining the institutional bond. The starting point for remote education was to verify 1) accessibility;2) interest in remote education;3) preference for virtual learning environments (VLE) and class format (synchronous or asynchronous). After that, the discipline of human physiology presented the results of this questionnaire to students and organized a proposed schedule of activities that was discussed and reformatted with the active participation of students via synchronous meeting using the Google Meet tool. After the collective construction of the pedagogical contract, Google Classroom was established as VLE and the discipline was offered remotely following the systematic 1);weekly asynchronous availability of lessons recorded in a reduced format;2) list of exercises contextualized with motivational cases based on the clinic and everyday physiological situations;3) suggestion for free accessible reading using Unesp's collection of e-books;4) synchronous weekly meeting not mandatory for mutual reception, on-call doubts and dynamics of content fixation using 'gamification' strategies of learning (Kahoot) and collective construction of knowledge (motivating cases discussed in online groups through document sharing via Google docs).

Results:

The initial questionnaire applied to students showed that 83% of students were interested in performing remote activities, signaling a preference for asynchronous classes that respected the diversity of scenarios experienced by students who were now reframing the space from home to dedicate time, physical space and emotional conditions to learn. The remote physiology teaching was first applied to the content previously taught in the presential classroom and served as 'tasting' and training. Adjustments were made based on the student's vision for improving the teaching and learning process of the discipline. The results of this experience show that the students classified the progress of the activities as adequate (grade 5, 0 being very slow and 10 being very fast) and high quality (grade 9 / 0-10). The verification of learning, done through exercises to fix and apply concepts, shows a performance of 78% to 89% by the students. The feedback of the exercises by the teacher attributed a formative character to the activities which had more than 98% adherence by the students. Conclusions and Support The remote experience of the discipline of human physiology shows that the diversified pedagogical construction of teaching strategies with the participation of the student humanizes the teaching and learning process, valuing the view of the student who starts to appropriate the process as a co-author.
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Full text: Available Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: EMBASE Language: English Journal: Biomedical and Biopharmaceutical Research Year: 2020 Document Type: Article