Study Strategy

Roadmap to successful study

A general roadmap to successful study has been developed by course mentors and staff: Roadmap for effective learning.  This Roadmap presents a clear overview of things to do and things to avoid, the table at the end with Do <-> Do not. The Roadmap is a concrete step by step example of an application of the fundamentals of learning.

And then there is a Study Strategy especially for the course:

Focus on course material

• Use the materials of the website www.learnmedicalneuroscience.nl in your learning. Do not forget to take a look at the page Learning Materials
• It works best if you really focus on the course materials. Course materials are: Video Tutorials, Tutorial Notes and the textbook (if it is available to you). You can use the resources on the website to complement the course materials.
• It is a good idea to to scan the tutorial notes before watching the Video Tutorials . Let the Tutorial Notes provide the framework for understanding the tutorial. The framework from the tutorial notes might make it easier for you to understand the tutorial right away. Do not go too deeply into the notes (it will take too much of your time). If you have the textbook, it is very useful to look up the figures that are mentioned in the text.
• Use Summary of Pathways  (2020, Neuroscience 5th and 6th ed.) This is a summary for the Final Exam of the course. Images in the Summary come from Anatomy & Physiology (OpenStax College .© 1999-2016, Rice University). You can use this material for educational purposes but remember to give the source. You can look at Virtual Lab, General Resources to find out how to do that.

Place tutorial notes in browser

Place tutorial notes in Coursera app

• If English is a problem you can also download the Transcript (also under Downloads as you can see in the image above) and read them before watching the video. Then you can follow what prof. White explains more easily.

Tutorial notes, merged per unit

• • Merged tutorial notes Neuroanatomy
  • Merged tutorial notes Neural Signaling
  • Merged tutorial notes Sensory Systems
  • Merged tutorial notes Motor Systems
  • Merged tutorial notes Brain Development
  • Merged tutorial notes Cognition

Take notes

• It is very useful to take notes while you watch the tutorials .  You can make rough sketches of what is shown. That is very useful in your study of neuroscience, as demonstrated in “Visualize your knowledge” ( Tutorial Video Your Part! at 07:15).
• Giulia Petitto, a mentor of our course has shared her Notebook Medical Neuroscience with us. We recommend that you take a look at Giulia’s Notebook for yourself. You can find it here.

  

Use Quizzes to learn the course material

• When you prepare for a Unit Quiz it is best if you study the Tutorial Notes again. You can use them when doing the Unit Quiz.
• The quizzes are wonderful learning material.  You can take 3 quizzes every 8 hours, after 8 hours have past you can start afresh that means you have an unlimited amount of quiz attempts. That allows you to learn from your mistakes. It is a good idea to repeat each quiz as many times as possible, because each time you take a given quiz it will be populated with different questions and answer choices.