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Technology in Anatomy Education, Technology in Education

Innovative Initiatives: Making Strides in the Classroom and Lab to Improve Anatomy Learning

Here's a question instructors often ask: What can be done to improve how students learn anatomy? Students want more than handouts and PowerPoint presentations; to meet their expectations, instructors and schools are constantly coming up with new ...
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Technology in Anatomy Education, Technology in Education

Calling All Librarians: A Visual and Interactive 3D Database for your Library

At Visible Body, we feel a kinship with academic librarians. Taking vast amounts of information, making sure it is accurate, organizing it in a ...
Instructor Case Studies, Technology in Education

More 3D Access = More Learning: An interview with Professor Mary Katherine Lockwood

Lab time at the University of New Hampshire is two hours a week for undergrad A&P. That, says Professor Mary Katherine Lockwood, is not enough ...
Technology in Anatomy Education, Technology in Education

Using Visible Body in the High School Classroom: Questions and Answers

At Visible Body, we’re always excited to meet high school teachers and show them our visual human biology content because, inevitably, the first ...
Instructor Case Studies, Technology in Education

Bringing Anatomy Labs to Life with 3D: An Interview with Lab Coordinator Debbi Johnson

In the A&P lab at Western Connecticut State University, there is all the great stuff you’d expect: Microscopes. Check. Plastic legs and arms ...
Technology in Anatomy Education, Technology in Education

Students Say: This is how we use 3D visual anatomy apps to study

We’re back with more clever insights from students who use Human Anatomy Atlas as a learning tool—this time we’re going to hear about the study ...
Instructor Case Studies, Technology in Education

Tales and Tips for Bringing More Educational Technology into Healthcare Courses, with Devin Marble

Devin Marble is an anatomy instructor at Pima Community College where he teaches students enrolled in the Public Safety and Emergency Services ...
Instructor Case Studies, Technology in Education

How Using 3D Anatomy Apps in Lab Improves Retention, with Tim Fleisher, Instructor

Tim Fleisher is an Assistant Instructor at the University of Texas - Austin and has been using Visible Body apps in his lab course for the past few ...
Technology in Anatomy Education, Lesson Plans, Technology in Education

A Lesson Plan in AR: Five Interactive Muscle Actions in Augmented Reality

For this group exercise on muscle action in augmented reality, divide your students into five groups, with one student to act as the model for each ...
Anatomy & Physiology, Technology in Anatomy Education, Technology in Education

Five Amazing Views in Augmented Reality: Kidney and Urinary Anatomy in AR

If you want to understand what an anatomical structure does, you need to know more than just its location. You also need to comprehend its layers and ...