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EDITORIAL

Sharing what works—the archive of teaching resources

Department of Physiology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina 27858

Key words: physiology education; teaching materials

Creative and innovative faculty often develop unique teaching resources that greatly benefit their students. Unfortunately, these teaching tools rarely travel beyond the institution where they originated. The American Physiological Society Archive of Teaching Resources hopes to enhance dissemination of effective teaching tools by providing an effective clearinghouse to store and categorize instructional resources.

The American Physiological Society experimented with offering a venue through which members could disseminate effective teaching aids. In 1997, John Dietz and Barbara Goodman designed a framework for an archive that was housed on the APS server. Our experience with this project led to our participation in the consortium of professional societies spearheaded by the AAAS, the BiosciEd Net portal. This participation will ensure that materials submitted to the APS archive will be accessible to individuals searching from any of over 11 professional society sites.

Submitted materials will be reviewed for scientific/clinical accuracy and, if appropriate, appropriate use of animals and/or humans. Each item housed in the archive will have an on-line bulletin board, where users can provide a candid (and signed) assessment and ranking of the item. The copyright will remain with the item author, and items can be withdrawn or revised by the author at any time.

Thanks to the hard work (and patience) of Marsha Matyas and her staff in the APS Education Office, the framework for submission and posting to and review and searching in the archive is in place. The success of this project depends on us, the physiology teachers.

First, visit the project at http://www.the-aps.org/archive and see what materials are available. Second, look at materials that you have developed, and consider sharing them with your colleagues. It is time to extend the range of effective teaching materials beyond the originating institution. If you have questions, please contact me (carrollr{at}mail.ecu.edu) or the APS higher education coordinator, Melinda Lowy (mlowy{at}the-aps.org). It is time to share what works and, in doing so, improve the teaching effectiveness of physiologists.

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