Enhancement of Stay-at-Home Learning for the Biomechanics Laboratory Course During COVID-19 Pandemic
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Biomedical Engineering Education (Ó 2020) https://doi.org/10.1007/s43683-020-00025-w
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Enhancement of Stay-at-Home Learning for the Biomechanics Laboratory Course During COVID-19 Pandemic CHUNG-HAO LEE ,1,2 YINGTAO LIU,2 MARC MOORE,3 XUN GE,4 and ZAHED SIDDIQUE2 1
Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Science and Technology, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA; School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA; 3Stepheson School of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA; and 4Department of Educational Psychology, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
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(Received 30 June 2020; accepted 24 August 2020)
CHALLENGE STATEMENT The outbreak and rapid spreading of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the U.S. disrupted American education enterprise with a majority of higher-education institutions physically shutdown and students and faculty transitioning from in-person lectures to remote learning during Spring 2020.1 Experimental laboratory courses provide biomedical engineering (BME) students essential experiential learning experiences to enhance critical thinking and innovation and to explore deeper engineering concepts.2,3 However, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced most BME programs to implement social distancing by switching from face-to-face to online instructions. Although studies on education during COVID-19 have shown effectiveness of online/blended learning environments for traditional lecture-based courses,4,5 our students expressed their concerns in recent laboratory post-course evaluations. Students and faculty felt unprepared after completing laboratory courses as they were only analyzing pre-collected data or provided with visualization of pre-recorded experiments. This may be attributed to the lack of hands-on experiences and peer-interactions in the traditional distance-learning environment. Uncertainties remain on how academia needs to react to the pandemic in Fall 2020 and beyond. Therefore, we aim to address this Address correspondence to Chung-Hao Lee, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Science and Technology, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA. Electronic mail: [email protected] Yingtao Liu: contributed equally and also share the first authorship.
significant challenge by discussing our ongoing development of a multi-modal experimental platform for the Biomechanics Laboratory course to enhance student learning in a stay-at-home or reduced-contact educational environment.
NOVEL INITIATIVE We will employ and evaluate four educational models to enhance student learning during Fall 2020. Specific efforts will be focused on the development and implementation of (i) ‘‘stay-at-home’’ experiments, (ii) remotely-accessible experiments, (iii) multiscale visualization of biomechanical testing data and complex material’s behaviors, and (iv) instructor feedback and peer assessment (Fig. 1). Each of these four instructional modes will be discussed in t
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