Biophysics and Physiological Modeling - Instructor Guides and Sample Chapters
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Welcome to the Instructor Guides homepage for the Biophysics and Physiological Modeling Project. The latest versions of the modules, instructor guides and other resources are listed below. If you, or your students, find any errors in the modules, instructor guides or other resources please let me know - I'd love to hear from you. The modules have been tested in my biophysics classes and the version numbers reflect revisions that have been made. The instructor guides are new, so if you have any corrections or suggestions for how they can be improved - please let me know via email.
Instructor Guides and Modules etc...
- Download Adobe Acrobat Reader (required to read modules etc.)
- Instructor guide for the series (v.2.2) - Instructors - read me first!
- Chapter 1: Introduction - marble game (v.4.5)
- Instructor guide (v.2.0)
- Classroom Activity - Marble Game (Excel Spreadsheet 2003)
- Brownian Motion Demo (Excel 2010 Spreadsheet)
- How to graph scientific data in Excel 2010 (YouTube Video Lecture)
- Chapter 2: Algorithms and pain relief (v.4.6)
- Chapter 3: Finite difference method and oxygen (v.4.6)
- Chapter 4: Model Validation and Penicillin. (v.4.4)
- Chapter 5: A new model of osmosis (v.4.6)
Please watch this space for more chapters as they become available...
If you use these modules as part of this Beta test, I'd like you to evaluate the modules, their effectiveness in producing student learning gains and then provide feedback. Below is a link to an evaluation tool that I've found useful. If you have another preferred tool or methodology, I'd be delighted to hear from you. Please consider this as an active learning experience for us all. If you have suggestions about how to improve this material or the process of disseminating it - please let me know. I'm currently working on more materials, if you're interested in seeing draft versions, please email me.
I'm also looking for collaborators who are interested in evaluating these materials as an example of how science education projects evolve and how to determine student learning benefits from curricular changes. If you are interested, please email me.
Evaluation
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© Peter Hugo Nelson 2009-2020
Conditions of use: If you use these materials, you should attribute the work in the following manner. Cite the project as a whole as:
Nelson, P. H. (2020) Biophysics and Physiological Modeling; Available from: http://circle4.com/biophysics/
Cite an individual chapter (e.g. Chapter 1) as:
Nelson, P. H. (2019) Biophysics and Physiological Modeling - Chapter 1: Introduction - marble game (v.4.4); Available from: http://circle4.com/biophysics/
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