Course info

The lecture introduces and explains basic chemical principles and methods, which are needed for the contrast agents used in biomedical imaging. Later, this knowledge will be applied to the contrast agent currently present in biomedical imaging techniques both in the clinical and pre-clinical research.

During the lecture, different methods available for digital teaching and learning (activities in Moodle, other software such as GoConqr or Padlet) will be used to interactively engage you as students in the transfer of knowledge and to exemplify the presented theory. I have chosen the asynchronous lecture style as it allows you to study the provided lecture material independently from each other and at your own pace. 

There will be plenty of opportunities for live sessions, which I will use to discuss certain aspects of the lecture material and to strengthen your understanding of the lecture content. I will keep the original set lecture time, i.e. Mondays 14:15 - 15:45, for live discussions. We will choose Adobe Connect as tool, which is available through Moodle. The instructions will always be provided on time! The live sessions will be moderated by my colleague Kirsten Taphorn. I am also planning to offer consultation hours, which will allow for individual or small group interactions with me as the lecturer. Here you can provide feedback, ask questions, etc.

You will find the lecture material activated always one week prior to the live sessions, i.e. you will have one week time to study the lecture material and participate in the activities. This way you will be optimally prepared for the live session, i.e. you will be able to actively participate and interact.

Interactive activities and discussions with and among the students are encouraged through individual and group work. Here, the two aspects of knowledge acquisition and presentation as well as knowledge repetition and application are addressed. For that matter, various methods such as accompanying worksheets, digital walls, whiteboards or interactive online quizzes are used.

The weekly format allows you to keep track of the tasks that have priority during one particular week. The lecture material (video material, lecture scripts, audio files, lesson plans, etc) will be mostly embedded in Moodle, i.e. you might need to leave the platform Moodle to use another software, which is currently not available in Moodle (although I hope that you will be able to start the link provided directly from Moodle).  In addition to the above-mentioned lecture materials, learning outcome tables are presented, which contain example questions over the different taxonomies (name, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate and create knowledge). In this way, you as the student are guided towards the final exam of this module.

At this point in time, I hope that we can conduct the exam as oral exam, which will take approximately 20 min. However, given these special circumstances we are all facing, we might need to change the format of the exam and transfer the exam to Moodle. For that purpose, I am planning to conduct the quizzes during the lecture, which will be designed for you to check your knowledge level, under exam conditions. This way we can all practice and learn from these experiences as we go and will be optimally prepared for this scenario if needed.

I am looking forward to meeting you all (maybe only virtual for this term) and welcome you to the summer term 2020!