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Publication Date: 2004-Sep
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Evolution of an Educator: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead
Modell, Harold I.
Advances in Physiology Education, v28 n3 p88-94 Sep 2004
In selecting a Claude Bernard Distinguished Lecturer, the Teaching Section looks for an individual who has made major contributions to physiology education. Dr. Harold Modell has certainly earned this honor. Harold has an undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota, a Masters in biomedical engineering from Iowa State, and, continuing the southern migration, a Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi Medical Center. After four years in Buffalo, first as a postdoctoral fellow and then as an assistant professor, Harold made the long trek to Seattle, WA, where he has been ever since. Harold Modell?s contributions to physiology education are many and varied. He was certainly one of the early developers of teaching software aimed at helping students learn physiology. His programs are widely used, but more importantly, he has been instrumental in bringing others into the field of computer-based education. The existence of the Teaching Section is in no small measure the result of Harold?s efforts to persuade APS that teaching was important to a great many of its members, and to the Society. Similarly, this journal, "Advances in Physiology Education," came to life after a long campaign spearheaded by Harold. As the journal?s founding editor, he set the stage for the growing success that it is enjoying today. Finally, Harold is an educational researcher of note whose every project is aimed at helping the learner to learn. As a leading advocate of this attitude, Harold has helped physiology teachers at all levels adopt this approach to teaching.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Researchers, Physiology, Computer Uses in Education, Active Learning, Educational Environment, Student Responsibility
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