Anatomy Facility, College of Medical and Nursing, Taibah University, Madinah, Saudi Arabia.
School of Simulation and Visualisation, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK.
Adv Exp Med Biol. 2019;1138:57-70. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-14227-8_5.
Advances in technology are facilitating wider access to delicate, and often irreplaceable, anatomy specimens for teaching. Moreover, 3-dimensional (3D) models and interactive applications may help students to understand the spatial arrangement of complex 3D anatomical structures in a way not afforded by the 2-dimensional (2D) textbook images of traditional teaching.Historical specimens from the University of Glasgow's Museum of Anatomy were digitised for the creation of a 3D learning tool to help students better understand the growth and development of the juvenile skull. The overarching goal of this project was to assess whether interactive 3D applications can provide a useful tool for teaching more complex, non-static, anatomy subjects such as growth and development.The application received positive feedback from the small test group of 12 anatomy students. The majority of participants strongly agreed that the application helped them learn more about the human skull and they positively rated the use of 3D models in helping them learn about the position and structure of anatomical features, and in comparing skulls at different stages of development. Following on from this positive feedback, further tests could be conducted to assess if this 3D application confers an advantage in student learning over traditional teaching methods.
技术的进步使人们更容易获得精细的、通常是不可替代的解剖标本进行教学。此外，3 维（3D）模型和交互式应用程序可以帮助学生以 2 维（2D）传统教学课本图像无法提供的方式理解复杂 3D 解剖结构的空间排列。格拉斯哥大学解剖博物馆的历史标本被数字化，用于创建一个 3D 学习工具，以帮助学生更好地理解青少年头骨的生长和发育。该项目的总体目标是评估交互式 3D 应用程序是否可以为教授更复杂、非静态的解剖学主题（如生长和发育）提供有用的工具。该应用程序收到了 12 名解剖学学生小测试组的积极反馈。大多数参与者强烈认为该应用程序帮助他们更多地了解了人类头骨，他们对 3D 模型在帮助他们了解解剖特征的位置和结构以及比较不同发育阶段的头骨方面的使用给予了积极评价。根据这一积极反馈，可以进行进一步的测试，以评估这种 3D 应用是否比传统教学方法更有利于学生学习。
