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!