Introduction and story behind the emergence of this learning activity. What was the need, what issue/problem was the teacher facing and wanted to resolve? 

The idea was to create digitalized instructions employing video for an MSc course and MSc thesis students on how to perform lab work. This idea already existed for a long time. The number of students involved in the courses is quite big, and the labs' capacity is limited. 

For the cell culture experiments, you need the extensive capacity to train the students to use the lab and to let them handle the cells by themselves. Previously, the thesis students would receive a lab tour and receive instructions on the basic techniques. Also, they would learn how to carry out the experiments. 

• Knowledge clips 
• Brightspace Quiz tool 
• H5P  - for a virtual lab tour
• Brightspace (in general)

What has been learned after this lesson/activity has been executed ?

• Apply cell culture techniques, interpret the results, and incorporate them in a written report
• Have insight into practical procedures, identify the crucial steps and be able to optimize protocols
• Carry out experiments independently

For the MSc thesis students who will work in the lab, the practical clips were obligatory. Together with successfully addressing the answers to the related quizzes, they were a prerequisite to enter the cell culture lab. For them, the learning outcomes were to understand the lab basics, lab safety and, more specifically, incubation of cells. After watching these videos, they should be able to carry out the experiments independently.  

Specific description and demonstration of the lesson idea/learning activity.

We have actually created a module with clips and quizzes. We have used 4 knowledge clips to replace one lecture and 9 practical clips to replace the introduction into the practical environment / the lab. For a lab tour, an H5P virtual tour in combination with a 360-degree picture was used. To self-assess the knowledge of the students, we included a quiz after each video. These quizzes consisted of 4-12 questions, with feedback on the given answers. Everything was incorporated in the course sites in Brightspace.  

Mentions tips lecturer has for colleagues based on their experience.

• When you start creating these clips and accompanying quizzes, you are forced to redesign your education, which automatically leads to improvements. You have to select the topics, decide what you say and how you say it. You think about what is important and what the learning objective is. How does everything fit together? You have to reduce the amount of information to create clips. You basically critically review a part of your course. And doing this together with a team is even bringing it to a higher level. Working on it as a team would also be a good recommendation for other lecturers who will use clips in their course.  

• What is important to realize is that it takes a lot of time to design and record the videos. But this is then justified by the improvement of the course and by the amount of time that it will save in the future when those clips can be used again. Also, the required preparation time decreases once you become more experienced.  

• Help on online education:  What's Up, What's New Brightspace page
• Manuals to know more about the H5P tool:  Brightspace Help for Lecturers - H5P
• Manuals to set up and use the Brightspace Quizzes: Brightspace Help for Lecturers - Quizzes

• Practical clip on Passage of Adherent Cells V202: (video below)

• Knowledge clip on Cell Culture Models - WW-v110: (video below)