Saturday, October 29, 2016

U Pennsylvania's Low-Cost Online Anatomy Courses Use VR - Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology

Spurred by the success of an earlier anatomy class offered as a massive open online course (MOOC), the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine is expanding its course offerings through its own institutional website and enhancing the course content with the help of a textbook publisher and 3D simulation company. The university's anatomy faculty has been developing the materials for a series of courses using Elsevier texts, Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy, Gray's Anatomy for Students and Larson's Human Embryology. The content creators have also worked with Sharecare Reality Lab to add digital, 3D, anatomic simulations that use virtual reality to enable students to explore the human body. https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/10/13/u-pennsylvanias-low-cost-online-anatomy-courses-use-vr.aspx