Yves Hänggi
Online Exercises for a Textbook in Clinical Psychology
Authors
Yves Hänggi (University of Fribourg)
Meinrad Perrez (University of Fribourg)
In 2005 Perrez and Baumann published the third edition of their edited textbook in clinical psychology and psychotherapy. As a new feature the textbook is linked with internet-based exercises and questionnaires. Students and other readers are invited to broaden their understanding and knowledge by doing online exercises, self-control questionnaires, questions to discus, and web links to further information. The aim of the online content is to expand the given information of the textbook, so as to provide self-awareness (e.g. by completing a clinical interview and receiving a personalised feedback). In our talk we will give an overview of the online content, discuss the evaluation of web visits, and we will demonstrate examples of questionnaires and interactive exercises.
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Béatrice S. Hasler
realSTAT: A problem-based learning tool
Authors
Béatrice S. Hasler (University of Zurich
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René Hirsig (University of Zurich
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Jürg Aeppli (Pädagogische Hochschule Luzern
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Ivan Sterzinger (University of Zurich
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Pascal Rusch (University of Zurich)
Statistics introductory courses in Psychology are the basis for Psychology students' later empirical work. The importance of statistics in Psychology is difficult to explain to undergraduate students. Many students believe that learning formulas and predefined solutions by heart will help them to pass the exam. This consequently leads to inert knowledge. Furthermore, statistics students are often unmotivated to learn statistics because the usefulness of its application cannot be demonstrated with text books and simple exercises.
In order to overcome the "inert knowledge" problem, and to foster students' motivation in learning statistics, we developed 'realSTAT' - a web-based problem-based learning tool, which allows students to solve realistic statistical case studies, and provides guidance and immediate feedback. Additionally, 'realSTAT' serves as a research tool that allows to examine the effectiveness of its usage by storing important user variables.
'realSTAT' is an integral part of the Swiss Virtual Campus project 'MESOSworld' (Methodological Education for the Social Sciences), which offers various assessment and training modules for different methodological areas.
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Roland Streule
Psychopathology Taught Online (PTO)
Authors
Roland Streule (University of Zurich)
Damian Läge (University of Zurich)
„Psychopathology Taught Online (PTO)“ is an eLearning environment which facilitates the understanding of mental disorders. The first two of the three contained curricula focus on the phenomenology of more than 50 of the most relevant mental disorders, offering a multitude of video-based case examples and case exercises. The third curriculum covers other important facets of psychopathology such as diagnostic challenges, information on rating scales as well as a brief introduction to psychopathology. While offering didactical guidance based on current learning-psychology theories, the fully modular structure of all lessons allows the contents to be freely selected by the teachers and to be individually explored by the students. PTO is designed to be implemented in various blended learning scenarios, but can also be used as a stand-alone learning module. Additionally, PTO introduces an innovative adaptive learning system, which measures the individual cognitive learning structures of the students. The comparison with expert structures results in automated learning recommendations and exercises to maximise the learning progress. PTO is a joint production of the University of Zurich and leading experts in psychopathology and clinical psychology in Switzerland and the University of Salzburg and receives financial support both from the University of Zurich and the Swiss Virtual Campus (SVC). For a brief trailer and more detailed information about PTO please visit www.pto.uzh.ch.
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Fred Mast
DEVIL in and outside the classroom
Authors
Fred Mast (University of Lausanne)
Mike Martin (University of Zurich)
Veronika Brandstätter (University of Zurich)
Matthias Kliegel (University of Zurich)
DEVIL is an experimental psychology lab class in which students acquire hands-on experience in core areas of experimental psychology such as Development, Emotion, Vision, Imagery, and Learning (DEVIL). With the introduction of the ECTS, substantially more teaching and study hours will be devoted to the training of skills related to empirical research and experimentation. At the same time, psychology is one of the most popular fields of study with a large number of students. The main goal of DEVIL is to optimize students' skills in independently and cooperatively planning, conducting, analyzing, and presenting sound empirical psychological experiments and thus to prepare students for the wide range of experimental psychological research. Yet another important advantage is the ability to incorportate most recent research examples and combine them with hands-on experience. Moreover, with the use of DEVIL lecturers will be able to allocate more time to content related classroom discussions because less time will be needed for organizational purposes. We will present a few examples how DEVIL was used in the past as well as the visions we have for the future. Devil is a Swiss Virtual Campus project with the University of Zürich as leading house and the Universities of Lausanne and Bern as project partners.
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