Open AccessReport on the online course “Basic Concepts in Neurophysiology”: a course promoted during the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine
Author(s) -
Guilherme Salgado Carrazoni,
Karine Ramires Lima,
Niége Alves,
Pâmela Billig MelloCarpes
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
advances in physiology education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1522-1229
pISSN - 1043-4046
DOI - 10.1152/advan.00239.2020
Subject(s) - covid-19 , course (navigation) , quarantine , pandemic , asynchronous communication , medical education , social distance , flipped classroom , online course , class (philosophy) , psychology , mathematics education , distancing , asynchronous learning , online learning , perception , period (music) , computer science , teaching method , medicine , multimedia , cooperative learning , synchronous learning , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , engineering , aerospace engineering , computer network , pathology , acoustics , physics , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
“Basic Concepts in Neurophysiology” was a 3-wk online course developed during six synchronous meetings combined with asynchronous activities. We proposed an active learning course that used free online platforms to teach physiology during a period in which undergraduates were not in classrooms or taking online classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Herein, we report the course organization and the students’ involvement in, acceptance of, and evaluation of the course. To address the students’ perceptions about these points, we sent a questionnaire to 49 participants who finished the course. We found that although most students (52.5%) had never taken a course with similar methods before, almost all of them (95%) liked the flipped class model. Additionally, a majority of the students (92.5%) said that the method increased their study frequency during the social distancing period, which is an important aspect to consider during this challenging time for both students and professors.