WELCOME TO ANAT 101 0
Evolution of the Course
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Class size manageable
Several lecturers and student presenters
Class size increased to capacity
Reduction in support staff
Pressure from external sources to enrol
more students with less faculty
• Pressures for enriched course materialslaboratory component, case studies, etc.
WHY CREATE A DISTANCE
ANATOMY COURSE?
• Unlimited enrolment:
– logical response to increased class size, shrinking
numbers of lecturers and demonstrators
• Removes geographical barriers:
– accessible to all students
• Financial implications:
– Faculty time and cost for setup
– Flexibility for working students, etc.
– Distance education fee returned to the department
Distance Anatomy Course: the
early stages
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Study Guide – detailed study objectives
– Mailed, written assignments, supervised
exams
– Time consuming, cumbersome,
administrative nightmare, paper trail
– Enrolment increased dramatically, Fall
Term=170, Winter Term=300 students
– Print-based format evolves into ComputerAssisted Learning using BLS
BLACKBOARD LEARNING
SYSTEM (BLS)
• University managed web-site for distribution and update
of course materials
• Simple to use windows-style environment for faculty and
students
• Provides a standardized format where students can
access course materials for all their courses, anytime –
anywhere
• Course materials can include course syllabus, lecture
notes, Powerpoint presentations, links to multi-media
resources, etc.
• Communication tools - announcements, discussion
boards, e-mail, who’s online, group areas
• Online exams, view their grades
Distance Anatomy: today
• Study Guide – detailed course objectives and
exam schedule
• Link to WileyPlus – Online study site includes
electronic text, read, study and practice material
and weekly assignments
• VIRTUAL ANATOMY LABORATORY: Online
cadaver dissection videos and Online Lab
Exams
• Laboratory Review Exercises
• PowerPoint Presentations and notes
STUDY GUIDE
VIRTUAL ANATOMY LAB
LAB REVIEW EXERCISES
LABEL IMAGES
Student Email Addresses
WILYPLUS
• Online study supplement with electronic
text
• Wealth of interactive visual and audio
resources
• Teaching outside the classroom-provides
customizable study tools for pre- and postlecture assignments
• Immediate feedback for self-assessment
• Gradebook
WILEYPLUS ASSIGNMENTS
• Pre- and post-lecture reading assignments
• Weekly, monthly and term quiz
assignments
• Immediate feedback with a LINK to
electronic text
• Second chance to answer question
rewards learning
• Review for exams (300 questions=10% of
grade)
Assignments
Assignments: Exam bank, page 1
of 20)
Grade Book
STUDENT FEEDBACK:
• Logical extension to lecture material,
exercises, animations, quiz questions
provides various approaches for learning
the material (identify learner type)
• Provides enrichment of course content for
Distance Courses.
• Immediate feedback on quiz questions
provides opportunity to enhance learning
• Class average has increased by 5-8
points.
OTHER SOURCES OF ONLINE
MATERIAL:
Medical organizations support ELearning
• MedEd Portal
www.aamx.org/mededportal
• Health Education Assets Library
www.healcentral.org
• Multimedia Educational Resource for learning and Online Teaching
www.merlot.org
Education is rapidly changing:
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Diverse class of students
Variety of desired learning outcomes
Variety of learning styles and preferences
Increased enrolment fueled by changing
economic pressures
How do we respond to these
learning issues:
• Adopt or adapt innovative teaching styles
• Experiment with new and emerging
instructional technologies
• Develop new curricula
Examples of adapting and adopting
new and emerging instructional
technologies:
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Research (Mystery) Question
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Interactive, online search, think critically
CLICK-ON (Audience Response System)
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Answer questions in class and receive immediate feedback
Synchronous learning, enhances student attention, motivates
reluctant students, assessment of class knowledge,
understanding, perspective of student compared to other
classmates and preparedness for exams
ADAPT: RESEARCH QUESTIONS
• Why are motor and sensory pathways
crossed?
• Why is the right AV valve tricuspid and left
AV valve bicuspid?
• Why is the lymphatic system
asymmetrical?
• Why does spermatogenesis occur at 30 C
below core body temperature.
EFFECTIVENESS AS A
LEARNING TOOL
• Highly interactive (students form
collaborative groups or independent study)
• Stimulates the students to become active
learners (answers submitted in writing)
• Allows the students to make rationale
observations about structure and function
• Exposes the students to a wide variety of
learning resources and multimedia
presentations
ADOPT: CLICK-ON
CLICK-ON (Cell phones in Class)
• Interactive tool that relies upon group effort or
independent participation
• Provides immediate feedback (students love to
succeed)
• Enhances student attention and learning
• Motivates reluctant students to interact
• Perspective of student compared to other
classmates and preparedness for exams
• Provides rapid assessment of class knowledge
& understanding for Instructor
“DOES IT WORK”
• Lectures/Study Guide: provides material to learn
• WileyPlus: resources for all types of learners
• Mystery Questions: learn to question everything
and how to find answers (learning how to be
active rather than passive learners)
• Click-On: in class assessment (not marked),
students seem to like it
STUDIES OF COMPUTERASSISTED INSTRUCTION
• The impact of interactive, computerized,
educational modules on preclinical medical
education. Bryner et al., 2008
• Evaluation of computer-aided instruction in the
medical gross anatomy curriculum. McNulty et
al., 2004
• The impact of e-learning in medical education.
Ruiz et al., 2006
• Assessing the integration of audience response
system technology in teaching of anatomical
sciences. Alexander et al., 2009
Finally: ASSESSMENT
• MIDTERM EXAMS
– cover one third of the course, multiple choice
questions, online (20% of grade)
• FINAL EXAM
– covers all course material, multiple choice questions,
supervised or online (40% of grade)
• LAB EXAMS
– Label images from anat videos and text, online (10%
of grade)
• WileyPlus
– consists of 300 quiz questions, online (10% of grade)
• Marks posted on BLS in GradeBook
PROS AND CONS OF ONLINE
EXAMS
• EASIER TO ADMINISTER
• PAPERLESS, exams are generated from exam
pool, random questions and answers
• MAKE-UP EXAMS
• MARKS AND STATS POSTED ON BLS
• EXAM REVIEW ONLINE
• Online Exams: low stress, facilitate on-demand
learning skills, memorization of facts not
effective, cheating-exam policy
ONLINE EXAM POLICY
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At Dalhousie University, we respect the values of academic integrity:
honesty, trust, fairness, responsibility and respect. As a student,
adherence to the values of academic integrity and related policies is a
requirement of being part of the academic community at Dalhousie
University.
What does academic integrity mean?
Academic integrity means being honest in the fulfillment of your
academic responsibilities thus establishing mutual trust. Fairness is
essential to the interactions of the academic community and is achieved
through respect for the opinions and ideas of others. “Violations of
intellectual honesty are offensive to the entire academic community, not
just to the individual faculty member and students in whose class an
offence occurs.” See: Intellectual Honesty section of University Calendar
If you are found guilty of an academic offence, a penalty will be
assigned ranging from a warning to a suspension or expulsion from the
University and can include a notation on your transcript, failure of the
assignment or failure of the course. All penalties are academic in nature.
NAME:____________________SIGNATURE:______________________
REVIEW OF COURSE GRADES
YEAR
AVG
WILEY
PLUS
1999
68.4
NO
NO
NO
NO
2000
68.8
NO
NO
NO
NO
2001
71.2
YES
NO
NO
NO
2002
73.1
YES
NO
NO
NO
2003
75.3
YES
NO
NO
NO
2004
71.9
YES
NO
NO
NO
2005
75.9
YES
NO
NO
NO
2006
77.3
YES
NO
YES
NO
2007
76.8
YES
YES
YES
NO
2008
76.4
YES
YES
YES
NO
2009
80/72
YES
YES
YES
YES
LAB
ONLINE
MIDTERM
ONLINE
FINAL
Course Administration
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Dal Online
– Class Management: class list, email addresses,
overrides
– Grade Submission: cut and paste from Excel
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BLACKBOARD LEARNING SYSTEM (BLS)
– Submit CRN at beginning of term (copy and rename
course material on BLS)
– Upload new lecture and exam schedule
– Upload new material and course changes
OTHER DISTANCE ANATOMY
DUTIES
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