Teaching resources¶
This page distinguishes resources that are usable now from curriculum components that are specified but still require development or validation.
Current practical guides¶
These substantial guides already exist in the live documentation:
| Practical resource | Focus |
|---|---|
| First experiment | Connect, stimulate and observe a first response |
| Patch-clamp-style investigations | Current-clamp and bounded voltage-clamp analogies |
| Excitability and threshold | Operational threshold and stimulus–response behaviour |
| Adaptation and firing patterns | Presets, latency, adaptation and firing diversity |
| Synapses and inputs | Signed synaptic inputs and integration |
| Two-unit networks | Physical multi-board network motifs |
| Stimulus recipes | Controlled and custom stimulation protocols |
Operational references remain authoritative for device controls, GUI operation, recording and export, emulator mode and the fluorescence-imaging simulation.
Curriculum architecture¶
The 80-module catalogue provides concept statements, audiences, logistics, learning outcomes, activity roadmaps, reusable outputs, dependencies, evidence sources and explicit scientific boundaries.
The MkDocs pages are the primary public reading experience. The editable source is retained for educators who want to adapt the architecture.
Resource availability¶
| Resource type | Status in the live documentation |
|---|---|
| Curriculum catalogue and course pathways | Available |
| Existing experiment and operational guides | Available |
| Four legacy lab-handout URLs | Replaced with honest module-specification pages |
| Instructor-ready worksheets and answer keys | Not yet released |
| Current validated example datasets | Not yet released |
| Current validated Jupyter/Colab teaching notebooks | Not yet released |
| Assessment scoring rubrics | Not yet released; learner-evidence requirements are documented |
The repository contains an older analysis notebook and historical recordings under Documentation/Archives/. They are not presented here as current teaching resources because they have not been validated against the current platform and curriculum.
Contribute or adapt a resource¶
Before contributing a module, use the module-development template, preserve its scientific boundary, and include the tested version and validation record. See How to contribute for the repository contribution route.