Incorporating Mind-maps in Cell Biology Lectures – A Reflection on the Advantages and Potential Drawback

Mind-maps have been advocated to be a useful learning tool for students. For Mind-maps to be effective, students have to learn how to use them and then construct their own maps. In this report, I describe my use of Mind-maps as a simple but useful tool for integration into teaching slides during Cell Biology lectures for providing students an overview of the topics that they are learning, orientating students during lectures with respect to the progression of the lesson and for showing links between topics. I highlight the strengths and potential weaknesses of such an approach.