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Exploring the 'UCL Brain Bank'
Embedding object-based learning into the Brain and Behaviour module using specimens from the UCL Brain Bank.
23 April 2018
Exploring the 'UCL Brain Bank'
Department: Psychology & Human Development
There is great potential to leverage the fantastic resources available in UCL collections. We believe those resources can be used to maximise student engagement and learning experience across a variety of courses and modules. In the previous year, the Brain and Behaviour module successfully employed the UCL Brain Bank (brain specimen from UCL Pathology Museum) in an enjoyable active lecture. Our aim within this project is to build on that foundation and use it as a model to extend it to other modules across UCL.
Team
Staff Partner: Dr Fran Knight
Student leads: Agata Plasa & Krisztina Fabian
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Links to the Connected Curriculum
Dimension 3: students make connections across subjects and out into the world
Giving students the opportunity to make conceptual connections between their own subject (psychology/neuroscience) and other disciplines within UCL (anatomy/neurophysiology/neuropsychiatry);
Dimenision 4: Students connect academic learning with workplace learning
Giving students the chance to enhance academic learning with the practical skills of examining and diagnosing cases of neural trauma according to brain specimen and clinical notes. In this way, students of this active lecture will work in groups to think, communicate and work creatively on course material in this novel setting unique resources.
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