Anatomic VisualizeR© Lessons
Efforts to develop Anatomic VisualizeR© began with an assessment of faculty and student needs for anatomy training at UCSD and a consideration of current best practices for anatomy education in a wide variety of contexts. Organizing these findings and articulating them as educational and developmental goals was an important first step in the development process. It also established that once developed, Anatomic VisualizeR©-based anatomy lessons could be used as adjuncts to current practices in anatomy education.
Anatomic VisualizeR© provides a virtual dissecting room in which students and faculty can directly interact with 3D models (anatomic, schematic, etc.) and concurrently access supporting curricular materials (text, images, sound, video, etc.).
Instructional activities, organized into learning modules, can be selected from a collection of previously developed learning modules or can be specially developed using the associated lesson authoring environment. Modules can be created for individual instruction, for presentation in large group settings, and for other curricular contexts.
The Anatomic VisualizeR© paradigm has been created to encourage exploration, discovery, and active learning by enabling students to creatively construct individualized and self-paced experiments. The learning modules are also designed to help students create a symbolic framework for anatomical knowledge, as well as to establish a context in which to integrate clinical skills and reasoning.
The scenarios listed below are series of screen captures taken at isolated points in time in Anatomic VisualizeR's three-dimensional virtual world and show possible views the user may encounter.
