An Online Multimedia Resource in Behavioral Neuroscience
Author
Lane, David M.; Tang, Zhihua
Date
2003Abstract
The advance of web-based technology has stimulated
innovation in education. This paper discusses the
development and evaluation of an online multimedia
resource for undergraduate-level behavioral neuroscience
education. This resource surveys four major subject areas:
language, attention and perception, thinking, and autism. It
employs audio and video streaming, online demonstration
experiments, computer simulation, and internet links. This
online resource has two distinct advantages over a paper
textbook. First, a considerable proportion of the content is
conveyed using multimedia, thus making the learning
experience more vivid and dynamic. Second, its
interactive components provide opportunities for students
to participate in the various experimental tasks introduced
in the text and to compare their own performance with
those of others. This hands-on experience not only
enables students to gain in-depth procedural knowledge of
the tasks but also has positive effects on their motivation.
Feedback from three undergraduate classes that used this
resource as supplementary material showed that students
were highly positive about its pedagogical values. This
free resource is available on the web at
http://psych.rice.edu/mmtbn/.
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