Making an Effective Flipped Neuroscience Lab by Approaching Students from Their Limbic Brain

dc.contributor.authorFu, Zhuoen
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-18T13:22:22Zen
dc.date.available2025-02-18T13:22:22Zen
dc.date.issued2024-07-21en
dc.description.abstractDuring the pandemic, we filmed our neuroscience labs, and now the videos provide a great resource to flip the lab. Our lab, however, covers a wide range of complicated topics, ranging from gross anatomy, immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining, and fluorescence imaging to cockroach microscopic surgery and measuring nerve conduction velocity on worms and human subjects, and it is challenging to get students to finish watching these complicated experiments. The biggest challenge that students face while watching these experiment demonstrations is their own emotions. When we were editing the films of the labs, we did not reduce the complexity, but we explained concepts by using concepts and objects that students are already familiar with so we do not trigger anxiety. To reduce boredom, we employed three major methods: questioning, humor, and increasing the pace. To address potential anxiety or reluctance about the in-person part of the lab, we mention at the beginning of every lab session that making mistakes is completely acceptable and, as they make mistakes, we help them understand what went wrong and how to correct it. We also introduce additional activities in some lab sessions to pique their interest. For instance, we ask students to test the effects of Red Bull on crickets and investigate whether students who play more video games have higher conduction velocities in the median nerve. Thus far, our flipped lab has been quite successful in terms of maintaining video retention rates and in-person attendance rates. A notable example of the effectiveness of improved hands-on skills is the cockroach microscopic surgery. Before implementing the flipped lab, only 10% of students were able to successfully complete the surgery and acquire nerve activity recordings. With the flipped lab, 90% of students were able to obtain a recording independently.en
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dc.description.versionAccepted versionen
dc.format.extentPages A158-A159en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.59390/dxcg7777en
dc.identifier.eissn1544-2896en
dc.identifier.issn1544-2896en
dc.identifier.issue2en
dc.identifier.otherPMC11396185en
dc.identifier.pmid39280715en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10919/124638en
dc.identifier.volume22en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFaculty for Undergraduate Neuroscienceen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/39280715en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectFlipped laben
dc.subjectIn-person lab attendance ratesen
dc.subjectNeuroscience laben
dc.subjectVideo retention ratesen
dc.subjectlimbic brainen
dc.titleMaking an Effective Flipped Neuroscience Lab by Approaching Students from Their Limbic Brainen
dc.title.serialJournal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Educationen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
dc.type.otherresearch-articleen
dc.type.otherJournal Articleen
dcterms.dateAccepted2024-06-18en
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Techen
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Tech/Scienceen
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Tech/Science/School of Neuroscienceen

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