Robert E Brainard, Amy L Shaffer, Lewis J Watson, Daniela G L Terson de Paleville, Jeff C Falcone
{"title":"Play your way to an \"A\": helping students engage during the social isolation of remote learning.","authors":"Robert E Brainard, Amy L Shaffer, Lewis J Watson, Daniela G L Terson de Paleville, Jeff C Falcone","doi":"10.1152/advan.00052.2024","DOIUrl":"10.1152/advan.00052.2024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With the increased attention focused on active learning, educators strive to find better and more innovative ways to engage students in the classroom. One of the hurtles that educators are presented with is that the classroom is no longer limited to a physical location but rather students and professor can meet via the internet, Before COVID-19, distance or remote learning was something that students, by and large, had the option of choosing in which whether to engage. Students had the option to take \"online courses,\" whether those be synchronous remote learning or asynchronous online courses. Indeed, numerous studies have focused on investigating the efficacy of many different approaches to distance and online learning. Unfortunately, COVID 19 mandated a rapid transition to remote learning, and with this forced change has come what some students describe as \"Zoom fatigue\" (Wolf CR. Psychology Today, May 2020). Many students reported feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and disengaged by the dramatic increase in mandated distance education required by the COVID pandemic. Video conferencing has become the \"go-to\" panacea for education during this time, and students are spending unprecedented amounts of time in front of a screen when normally they would be in a classroom. This heretofore singular and unique approach to education coupled with decreased peer-to-peer interaction has caused a problem with student engagement (Goodman BE, Barker MK, Cooke JE. <i>Adv Physiol Educ</i> 42: 417-423, 2018). Students' engagement and performance have decreased during COVID-19 because of forced online learning and lack of peer interaction. We hypothesize that creating a nongraded, fun, and relaxing physiology-focused \"Trivia Night\" will increase student engagement and performance on summative assessments. Using a master's level class progressing through the respiratory physiology module utilizing remote, synchronous lectures to deliver content, we introduced a voluntary Trivia Night review session with teams randomly assigned to increase interaction among peers and review respiratory physiology material.<b>NEW & NOTEWORTHY</b> This article presents the effectiveness of the use of the \"pub Trivia Night\" to facilitate learning, deconstruct misconceptions, and increase engagement during remote teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":50852,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Physiology Education","volume":" ","pages":"720-725"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141908251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A lesson for us all: the Hodgkin-Keynes long pore model of ion flux.","authors":"Amy J Hopper, Angus M Brown","doi":"10.1152/advan.00124.2024","DOIUrl":"10.1152/advan.00124.2024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article we analyze the classic Hodgkin and Keynes 1955 paper describing investigations of the independence principle, with the expectation that there is much students and educators can learn from such exercises, most notably how the authors applied their diverse skill set to tackling the numerous obstacles that the study presented. The paper encompasses three of the physiology core concepts, cell membranes, flow down gradients, and scientific reasoning, which were recently assigned to the classes The Biological World, The Physical World, and Ways of Looking at the World, respectively. Thus, analysis of such a paper illuminates the relationships that exist between distinct concepts and encourages a holistic approach to understanding physiology. In-depth analysis of the paper allows us to follow the authors' thought processes from their realization that previous methods lacked the resolution to answer a fundamental question relating to ion movement across membranes to the application of a more sensitive technique and ultimately the development of a novel model describing ion flux. This paper was the culmination of work started in the mid-1930s, strongly supported the ionic theory of nervous conduction proposed by Hodgkin and Huxley, and predicted the presence of ion channels as narrow pores through which ions move sequentially four decades before these features were convincingly demonstrated.<b>NEW & NOTEWORTHY</b> We describe in detail Hodgkin and Keynes' investigation of the independence principle. It is our expectation that students and educators can benefit from following the thought processes applied by the authors as they navigated the complexities of experimental design and data analysis, culminating in development of a model whose elegant simplicity was convincing evidence of narrow membrane-bound pores, ion channels, that were the conduit for transmembrane ion movement.</p>","PeriodicalId":50852,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Physiology Education","volume":" ","pages":"790-798"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142114483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The foundation of excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle: communication between the transverse tubules and sarcoplasmic reticulum.","authors":"Jack A Rall","doi":"10.1152/advan.00086.2024","DOIUrl":"10.1152/advan.00086.2024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The expression excitation-contraction (EC) coupling in skeletal muscle was coined in 1952 (Sandow A. <i>Yale J Biol Med</i> 25: 176-201, 1952). The term evolved narrowly to include only the processes at the triad that intervene between depolarization of the transverse tubular (T-tubular) membrane and Ca<sup>2+</sup> release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR). From 1970 to 1988, the foundation of EC coupling was elucidated. The channel through which Ca<sup>2+</sup> was released during activation was located in the SR by its specific binding to the plant insecticide ryanodine. This channel was called the ryanodine receptor (RyR). The RyR contained four subunits that together constituted the \"SR foot\" structure that traversed the gap between the SR and the T-tubular membrane. Ca<sup>2+</sup> channels, also called dihydropyridine receptors (DHPRs), were located in the T-tubular membrane at the triadic junction and shown to be essential for EC coupling. There was a precise relationship between the two channels. Four DHPRs, organized as tetrads, were superimposed on alternate RyRs. This structure was consistent with the proposal that EC coupling was mediated via a movement of intramembrane charge in the T-tubular system. The speculation was that the DHPR acted as a voltage sensor transferring information to the RyRs of the SR by protein-protein interaction causing the release of Ca<sup>2+</sup> from the SR. A great deal of progress was made by 1988 toward understanding EC coupling. However, the ultimate question of how voltage sensing is coupled to the opening of the SR Ca<sup>2+</sup> release channel remains unresolved.<b>NEW & NOTEWORTHY</b> The least understood part of the series of events in excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle was how information was transmitted from the transverse tubules to the sarcoplasmic (SR) and how Ca<sup>2+</sup> was released from the SR. Through an explosion of technical approaches including physiological, biochemical, structural, pharmacological, and molecular genetics, much was discovered between 1970 and 1988. By the end of 1988, the foundation of EC coupling in skeletal muscle was established.</p>","PeriodicalId":50852,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Physiology Education","volume":" ","pages":"759-769"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141908253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mingyu Yang, Flora J Keumurian, Caleb Neufeld, Elizabeth Skrip, John Duguid, Humberto Vega-Mercado, Reeta P Rao, Marsha W Rolle, Stacy L Springs, Jacqueline M Wolfrum, Paul W Barone, Krystyn J Van Vliet
{"title":"Upskilling the cell therapy manufacturing workforce: design, implementation, and evaluation of a massive open online course.","authors":"Mingyu Yang, Flora J Keumurian, Caleb Neufeld, Elizabeth Skrip, John Duguid, Humberto Vega-Mercado, Reeta P Rao, Marsha W Rolle, Stacy L Springs, Jacqueline M Wolfrum, Paul W Barone, Krystyn J Van Vliet","doi":"10.1152/advan.00077.2023","DOIUrl":"10.1152/advan.00077.2023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cell therapies have gained prominence as a promising therapeutic modality for treating a range of diseases. Despite the recent clinical successes of cell therapy products, very few formal training programs exist for cell therapy manufacturing. To meet the demand for a well-trained workforce, we assembled a team of university researchers and industry professionals to develop an online course on the principles and practice of cell therapy manufacturing. The course covers the basic cell and systems physiology underlying cell therapy products, in addition to explaining end-to-end manufacturing from cell acquisition through to patient treatment, industrialization, and regulatory processes. As of September 2023, >10,000 learners have enrolled in the course, and >90% of respondents to the course exit survey indicated that they were \"very likely\" or \"likely\" to recommend the course to a peer. In this article, we discuss our experience in the collaborative design and implementation of the online course as well as lessons learned from quantitative and qualitative student feedback. We believe that this course can serve as a model for how academia and industry can collaborate to create innovative, scalable training programs to meet the demands of the modern biotechnology workforce.<b>NEW & NOTEWORTHY</b> We assembled a team of university researchers and industry professionals to develop an online course on the principles and practice of cell therapy manufacturing. We believe that this course can serve as a model for how academia and industry can collaborate to create innovative, scalable training programs to meet the demands of the modern biotechnology workforce.</p>","PeriodicalId":50852,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Physiology Education","volume":" ","pages":"733-741"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11684858/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141176863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gregory J Crowther, Victoria L VanHeel, Sasha D Gradwell, Casey J Self, Krista L Rompolski
{"title":"General skills amidst the details: alternative learning objectives and a framework of competencies for human anatomy.","authors":"Gregory J Crowther, Victoria L VanHeel, Sasha D Gradwell, Casey J Self, Krista L Rompolski","doi":"10.1152/advan.00076.2024","DOIUrl":"10.1152/advan.00076.2024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The field of anatomy is often seen by nonanatomists as concerned primarily with the tasks of locating, naming, and describing structures; these tasks, in turn, are often assumed to require only lower-order cognitive skills (LOCSs), i.e., the Knowledge or Comprehension levels of Bloom's taxonomy. Many nonanatomists may thus believe that studying anatomy does not develop transferable higher-order cognitive skills. Published lists of anatomy learning objectives (LOs) might reinforce this view by focusing attention on numerous details of specific structures and regions. To explore this issue further, we have analyzed the structure of published peer-reviewed LOs by characterizing their organization (single-tiered or multi-tiered), inclusion of function, use of action verbs, and dependence on or independence of context. Our results suggest that previously published LO lists, despite their value, may not fully showcase opportunities for students to develop higher-order skills. In the hope of stimulating further discussion and scholarship, we present here a two-tiered framework of human anatomy competencies, i.e., generalizable skills beyond straightforward recognition and memorization. This framework, which is intended to be both student-facing and faculty-facing, illustrates how anatomy courses may be reframed as opportunities to think critically and develop sophisticated, professionally relevant skills.<b>NEW & NOTEWORTHY</b> Although skilled anatomists know that anatomy is much more than memorization, nonanatomists are often unsure how to emphasize general skills and problem-solving in their teaching of the subject. Here we show how a multi-tiered approach to defining and assessing learning objectives (LOs) can reframe anatomy courses as more than long lists of structures to remember.</p>","PeriodicalId":50852,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Physiology Education","volume":" ","pages":"799-807"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11684873/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141983794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Keba J, Vineetha K. Ramdas Nayak, Sajitha N, Himiki S
{"title":"Using word cloud as a formative assessment classroom technique in physiology","authors":"Keba J, Vineetha K. Ramdas Nayak, Sajitha N, Himiki S","doi":"10.1152/advan.00142.2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1152/advan.00142.2023","url":null,"abstract":"Advances in Physiology Education, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 708-711, December 2024. <br/>","PeriodicalId":50852,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Physiology Education","volume":"5 1","pages":"708-711"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142258399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kênia M. de Oliveira, Ana Clara de G. Fernandes, Gabriela M. Soares, Joel Alves da Silva, Everardo M. Carneiro, Helena C. L. Barbosa
{"title":"Development and evaluation of the active learning game “Who Am I?—Cellular Signal Transduction Edition”: the positive impact on undergraduate education","authors":"Kênia M. de Oliveira, Ana Clara de G. Fernandes, Gabriela M. Soares, Joel Alves da Silva, Everardo M. Carneiro, Helena C. L. Barbosa","doi":"10.1152/advan.00242.2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1152/advan.00242.2023","url":null,"abstract":"Advances in Physiology Education, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 690-697, December 2024. <br/>","PeriodicalId":50852,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Physiology Education","volume":"206 1","pages":"690-697"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142258401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of exam retakes on future exam performance in a large classroom setting","authors":"James T. Davis, Kristina Adams, Ashley Morgan","doi":"10.1152/advan.00217.2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1152/advan.00217.2023","url":null,"abstract":"Advances in Physiology Education, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 685-689, December 2024. <br/>","PeriodicalId":50852,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Physiology Education","volume":"15 1","pages":"685-689"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142258402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Application of cognitive load theory in reading English academic articles on medical education among Chinese undergraduate medical students","authors":"Hui Bian, Xinyao Fu, Yuanyuan Wang, Sihai Xiong, Feiyu Chen, Yufei Yang, Di Gao","doi":"10.1152/advan.00269.2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1152/advan.00269.2023","url":null,"abstract":"Advances in Physiology Education, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 712-719, December 2024. <br/>","PeriodicalId":50852,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Physiology Education","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142258404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Felipe Xavier de Melo, César Augusto Melo-Silva, Veronica Moreira Amado
{"title":"Teaching the distribution of pulmonary blood flow using a Starling resistor model and turbine flowmeters","authors":"Felipe Xavier de Melo, César Augusto Melo-Silva, Veronica Moreira Amado","doi":"10.1152/advan.00234.2022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1152/advan.00234.2022","url":null,"abstract":"Advances in Physiology Education, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 704-707, December 2024. <br/>","PeriodicalId":50852,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Physiology Education","volume":"2 1","pages":"704-707"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142258400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}