Alternatives in Education: New Approaches for the New Millennium

Synopsis: Gives a comprehensive overview of the available alternatives to using live animals for experiments in education and features a selection of the best products in use today. Covering nerve and muscle physiology, pharmacology, surgery, anatomy and animal handling, InterNICHE interviews university teachers who have themselves developed or implemented computer software and other products in their curriculum. The film samples classical experiments where conventional animal use has been replaced by a range of progressive alternative methods. The alternatives are demonstrated by the teachers, and students give their feedback.

Products featured include computer simulation and learning packages, computer-linked human self-testing apparatus, waste organ surgical training apparatus, high-resolution video and a veterinary training model. Full details of the products and producers are available. Further alternative approaches for practical work requiring animal tissue are covered in the film with the sourcing and use of ‘naturally-dead’ or euthanised animals, and clinical practice.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 1999
Year of production: 1999
Uses: Suitable for teachers and students of biological science, veterinary and human medicine, for ethics committees and legislators.
Subjects: Biology; Medical sciences
Keywords: anatomy; animal experiments; pharmacology; physiology - animal; surgery

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British Universities Film & Video Council