Optical versus virtual: Teaching assistant perceptions of the use of virtual microscopy in an undergraduate human anatomy course

Anatomical Sciences Education

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 10-19

  Collier, Larissa ^a,b   Dunham, Stacey ^a   Braun, Mark W ^a   O'Loughlin, Valerie Dean ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Histology education; Innovations; Microscopic anatomy; Optical microscopy; Pedagogy; Teaching assistants; Virtual microscopy

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOPERATION; EDUCATION; GROUP PROCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MASS COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; PERCEPTION; TEACHING; TIME MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ANATOMY; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INDIANA; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MICROSCOPY; PERCEPTION; PROGRAM EVALUATION; TEACHING; TIME MANAGEMENT; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84855794156     PISSN: 19359772     EISSN: 19359780     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ase.262     Document Type: Article

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