Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
Department of Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan Medical School, Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
Anat Sci Educ. 2023 May-Jun;16(3):363-371. doi: 10.1002/ase.2239. Epub 2022 Dec 22.
With anatomical education becoming a global endeavor, free online resources offered via the Internet or other electronic venues are of increasing importance for teaching and learning communities worldwide. Students and instructors from developing countries, often limited in access to modern instructional resources by infrastructural and financial constraints, are frequent users of such online learning tools. During the recent Covid-19 pandemic when all academic institutions were forced to quickly switch to a non-contact mode of teaching, free online instructional resources were often essential for continuing the educational mission. However, there are a number of obstacles and issues that need to be considered when creating and offering such learning resources. These include the type, quality, and completeness of the content, their educational purpose, access to technical and financial resources, copyright and ethical issues, and more. Educators, who plan to generate and maintain free online resources, should also be aware that such projects usually require a considerable long-term time commitment. In this article, these issues are discussed using the Michigan Histology website as an example. The discussion also addresses how e-learning resources like the Michigan Histology website supported online learning during the recent Covid-19 pandemic.
随着解剖学教育的全球化发展，通过互联网或其他电子媒介提供的免费在线资源对于全球的教学社区来说变得越来越重要。发展中国家的学生和教师由于基础设施和资金的限制，往往无法接触到现代教学资源，因此经常使用这种在线学习工具。在最近的 COVID-19 大流行期间，所有学术机构都被迫迅速转向非接触式教学模式，免费的在线教学资源对于继续完成教育使命通常是必不可少的。然而，在创建和提供此类学习资源时，需要考虑许多障碍和问题。这些问题包括内容的类型、质量和完整性、教育目的、获取技术和财务资源的途径、版权和道德问题等等。计划制作和维护免费在线资源的教育工作者还应该意识到，此类项目通常需要相当长的时间投入。本文以密歇根组织学网站为例，讨论了这些问题。讨论还探讨了密歇根组织学网站等电子学习资源如何在最近的 COVID-19 大流行期间支持在线学习。
