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The Community College Anatomy and Physiology Education Research (CAPER) project is midway through its second year. Currently, two groups of community college A&P educators are engaged in the program that aims to both increase the use of active learning strategies…
This post is from the CAPER Team, including Chasity O’Malley, Murray Jensen, Kerry Hull, Ron Gerrits, Kyla Ross, Suzanne Hood, and Betsy Ott. A Few Questions and Answers Community College educators are busy people, especially in the new normal that we…
This post is from the CAPER Team, including Chasity O’Malley, Murray Jensen, Kerry Hull, Ron Gerrits, Kyla Ross, Suzanne Hood, and Betsy Ott. Have you thought about making changes in your classroom, but lacked the time and resources to do…
Community College Anatomy and Physiology Education Research (CAPER) Program: Promoting Change in Classroom Pedagogy to Benefit Students Active learning is not a new concept within HAPS. Annual conference poster and workshop sessions are chock-full of ideas on how to incorporate…
Administrators and faculty have questioned the effectiveness of online, hybrid and dual credit sections of a course as opposed to a traditional face to face section. The opinion voiced most often is that the online and dual credit sections cannot…
In 2014, when I was teaching at a school of nursing, I was asked to develop a Human Anatomy and Physiology course sequence for undergraduates at our university who were interested in pursuing a degree in nursing. Human Anatomy and…
From the founding of the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS) as an organization in 1989, there has been a general agreement that many of our students find the study of Human Anatomy and Physiology to be difficult. For some…
First, a few questions: How many of these abbreviations do you know? SoTL DBER IUSE CAPER Where do most students in the USA take entry-level anatomy and physiology? The answer the first question will be at the end, but it’s…
Consider this post an invitation to submit classroom activities for possible publication in a special issue of the HAPS Educator! My boss, Robin, and I were talking one day about our best classroom activities. “Do you have anything that’s a…
Hot off the digital press…the results of the 2017 HAPS laboratory instructor survey are now available to HAPS members in a Special Edition of HAPS Educator. My thanks to all of you who participated in either the 2014 or the…