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| Virtual Pharmacology Lab - a repository of free educational resources to support animal-free pharmacology teaching |
Applicant:
Prof. David Dewhurst
College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine,
University of Edinburgh, the UK
| The Virtual Pharmacology Lab is an open access repository of quality assured learning objects designed to support pharmacology practical teaching. The aim is to promote sharing and re-use of existing pharmacology resources to enhance teaching and learning and reduce animal use in education. Currently the repository contains >650 learning objects that are in fact the disaggregated components of eleven existing computer-based simulations of practical pharmacology classes developed by one of the authors (David Dewhurst) - brief descriptions can be found at www.sheffbp.co.uk.
The learning objects include: data traces - showing how a particular tissue preparation responds to a change in experimental parameters (e.g. administration of a drug/drug combination, electrical stimulation); textfiles e.g. a description of an experimental protocol, the experiment method; images, diagrams, illustrations; video – e.g. an illustration of how a preparation is dissected, set-up in an organ bath; interactive student tasks, activities and self-assessment questions. Teachers of pharmacology are encouraged to tailor their teaching by embedding/incorporating the learning objects of the repository into their own teaching materials e.g. a website, PowerPoint presentation, e-book. While the repository content is currently limited to the author’s materials it is hoped that other pharmacologists/physiologists will wish to contribute additional resources and make these freely available to colleagues for (non-profit) teaching purposes under the same Creative Commons license.
To access the repository please click the following link: www.virtualpharmacologylab.com
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