Andrew Knight videos

5. Animals in Research and Teaching

Educational animal use and alternatives - full presentation

Educational animal use and alternatives 01:11:58

Educational animal use and alternatives

 Проф. Андрю Найт: Използване на животни с образователни цели и техните алтернативи 01:07:30

Проф. Андрю Найт: Използване на животни с образователни цели и техните алтернативи

 Uso de animais na educação e alternativas (Educacional animal use and alternatives) - Andrew Knight 26:15

Uso de animais na educação e alternativas (Educacional animal use and alternatives) - Andrew Knight

 Educational Animal Use Within Europe 06:03

Educational Animal Use Within Europe

 Critically Evaluating Animal Research 50:09

Critically Evaluating Animal Research

 Educational animal use and alternatives - full presentation 01:05:44

Educational animal use and alternatives - full presentation

 Creating a Clinical Skills Laboratory for teaching surgical and clinical skills 02:58

Creating a Clinical Skills Laboratory for teaching surgical and clinical skills

 Primate research 04:44

Primate research

 Efficacy of Alternatives to Educational Animal Use 05:11

Efficacy of Alternatives to Educational Animal Use

 Animal Research and Depression 05:17

Animal Research and Depression

 Educational Animal Use and Alternatives 09:57

Educational Animal Use and Alternatives

 How Useful is Animal Research? 09:56

How Useful is Animal Research?

 Alternatives to Animal Research 09:47

Alternatives to Animal Research

 Scientific Animal Use 05:29

Scientific Animal Use

 Humane Teaching Methods within Veterinary and Biomedical Education by Professor Andrew Knight 01:22:51

Humane Teaching Methods within Veterinary and Biomedical Education by Professor Andrew Knight

 Humane Education - caring, not killing 07:02

Humane Education - caring, not killing

 'The Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments' - book by Andrew Knight 09:56

'The Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments' - book by Andrew Knight

 Ethical Objections to Animal Experimentation 16:29

Ethical Objections to Animal Experimentation

 Increasing the implementation of alternatives to invasive animal use within biomedical research 09:06

Increasing the implementation of alternatives to invasive animal use within biomedical research

 Why Beagles for testing06 02:02

Why Beagles for testing06

 Working Together For Change 03:47

Working Together For Change

 Non animal methods of research - a more humane and scientifically valid option 06:56

Non animal methods of research - a more humane and scientifically valid option

 Statistics and Regulation 04:11

Statistics and Regulation

 Efficacy - Assessing the utility of animal experiments 04:23

Efficacy - Assessing the utility of animal experiments

 Animal Experiments - a failing science 17:38

Animal Experiments - a failing science

 Public hearing - PC 2 - Use of primates and other animals in medical research in NSW - 1 June 2022 06:43:35

Public hearing - PC 2 - Use of primates and other animals in medical research in NSW - 1 June 2022

 WIST-Kongress - Wissenschaft statt Tierversuche 04:52

WIST-Kongress - Wissenschaft statt Tierversuche

 Prof ANDREW KNIGHT - Systematic Reviews of Animal Experiments 32:05

Prof ANDREW KNIGHT - Systematic Reviews of Animal Experiments

 Panel Discussion - WIST-Kongress "Science instead of Animal Experiments" 43:56

Panel Discussion - WIST-Kongress "Science instead of Animal Experiments"

 WDAIL - Dr Andrew Knight's Speech 15:40

WDAIL - Dr Andrew Knight's Speech

Saturday, September 27, 2025

Animal use resulting in harm or death has historically played an integral role in life and health sciences education, in disciplines such as surgery, physiology, biochemistry, anatomy, pharmacology, and parasitology. However, the last few decades have seen a rapid increase in the availability of non-harmful alternatives, such as computer simulations, high quality videos, ‘ethically-sourced cadavers’ such as those from animals euthanized for medical reasons, preserved specimens, models and surgical simulators, non-invasive self-experimentation and supervised clinical experiences. Yet students seeking to use such methods often face strong opposition from faculty members, who usually cite concerns about their teaching efficacy.
In 2021 we published a systematic review of learning outcomes achieved by humane alternatives, compared to harmful animal use. We located 50 relevant studies from 1968–2020, primarily from the USA, UK, and Canada. Humane teaching methods produced learning outcomes superior (30%), equivalent (60%), or inferior (10%) to those produced by traditional harmful animal use.

Many additional studies in which comparison with harmful animal use did not occur have illustrated other benefits of humane teaching methods, namely; time and cost savings, increased repeatability and flexibility of use, customization of the learning experience, more active learning, facilitation of autonomous and life-long learning, improved attitudes towards computers and alternatives to animal use, and increased employer perception of computer literacy.

This presentation reviews educational animal use, humane teaching methods, and evidence concerning teaching efficacy. The results indicate that educators can best serve their students and animals, while minimizing financial and time burdens upon their faculties, by introducing well-designed teaching methods not reliant upon harmful animal use.

Further info: www.HumaneLearning.info.
Tags: Animals in Research and Teaching

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