Blended learning for teaching cell culture as part of DME e-Parasitology

• Antonio Peña-Fernández ^[3] ; Mark D. Evans ^[3] ; Carolina Hurtado ^[4] ; Lucrecia Acosta ^[1] ; Fernando Izquierdo ^[4] ; Angela Magnet ^[4] ; María Ángeles Peña ^[2] ; Neenu Singh ^[3] ; Soledad Fenoy ^[4] ; Fernando J. Bornay ^[1] ; Camen del Águila ^[4]
  1. [1] Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche

     Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche

     Elche, España

     
  2. [2] Universidad de Alcalá

     Universidad de Alcalá

     Alcalá de Henares, España

     
  3. [3] De Montfort University, Leicester
  4. [4] Universidad San Pablo-CEU

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• Localización: X Encuentro de Innovación en Docencia Universitaria: "Al futuro con el pasado" / Héctor del Castillo Fernández (ed. lit.), Patricia Gómez Hernández (ed. lit.), 2019, ISBN 9788417729882, págs. 461-475
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  • Emerging and re-emerging human parasites have become a global health threat due todifferent factors including globalisation, climate and vector ecology changes that have highlighted the necessity of teaching human parasitology to appropriately train futurehealth care professionals. However, a significant erosion in the teaching of parasitologyin conjunction with a reduction of the number of parasitology departments acrossEuropean universities has been reported. To maintain and strengthen the teaching ofthis discipline, De Montfort University (DMU, UK) is leading an innovative internationalproject for the development of a complete on-line package for teaching and learningparasitology named DMU e-Parasitology. This package will be publicly availableon the DMU website here http://parasitology.dmu.ac.uk/ when completed early in2019 and have different modules including a Virtual Laboratory. This paper focuses onthe first e-learning unit created for the Virtual Laboratory section, named Human CellCulture, and the validation undertaken to use it as a model unit to build this section.Cell culture is fundamental in parasitology for supporting different areas such as cultureof oblígate intracellular parasites or testing future drugs against these pathogens.The evaluation of the unit with undergraduate Biomedical Science students in 2017118at De Montfort University (UK) indicate that the unit seemed successful in facilitatingstudents to acquire essential basic skills for working with cells in a cell culture room.Finally, we also provide a description of the short-blended learning experience implementedto validate the unit, intervention that could be easily adopted to enhance theteaching of cell culture in human health science programmes.