{"id":1021,"date":"2021-11-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2021-11-03T11:01:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T11:01:31","slug":"exploring-3d-anatomy-a-new-mooc-developed-with-fms-tel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/2021\/11\/02\/exploring-3d-anatomy-a-new-mooc-developed-with-fms-tel\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring 3D Anatomy – A New MOOC Developed with FMS TEL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the past few months, the FMS TEL team have been working on bringing a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to life. The course, Exploring 3D Anatomy, is an active, hands-on, and engaging online course now available to Newcastle students and staff! The course was designed by Dr Iain Keenan of Newcastle University and Mr Leonard Shapiro of the University of Cape Town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3D spatial awareness is a cognitive function. Improving it improves students\u2019 3D visualisation ability and spatial skills in anatomy learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our experience, medical, dental, and other healthcare students can experience significant challenges in 3D spatial anatomy. Because of the three-dimensional arrangement of the human body, student spatial awareness can be a major influence on their anatomical education. In this online course, students can practice several  easy-to-follow, hands-on exercises that we have designed to address and improve 3D spatial awareness. Video demonstrations by Iain and Leonard guide students through each activity, which involve the use of  readily available household objects such as a piece of fruit, a jar, or a fork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As simple as these exercises are to follow and carry out, the effect of such activities on improving 3D spatial awareness can be notable. What\u2019s more, the exercises can be enjoyable too!<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Fruit Exercise: a guided dissection of this 3D object can improve 3D spatial understanding of the anatomical planes.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The practical exercises in the course are demonstrated by Iain and Leonard on video, allowing students to access the content at their own pace. These videos show the exercises in detail and allow students to hear the conversation as the exercise unfolds. Videos are short and simple to follow, and have been captioned by the team to ensure clarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leonard Demonstrating the Fruit Exercise with a Lemon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Iain Starting the Fruit Exercise with a Lime<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

All Newcastle University staff and students can join the Canvas course<\/a>, which is structured in three parts and requires around 4 hours of activity in total. We hope to expand access to an extended version of the course in 2022\/23. For further information, please contact Dr Iain Keenan<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contacts <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dr Iain Keenan<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in Anatomy, School of Medical Education, Newcastle University <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Leonard Shapiro<\/a>, Observation and Spatial Awareness Teacher, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further Reading <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This course is supported by the following research: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Backhouse, M., Fitzpatrick, M., Hutchinson, J., Thandi, C.S. and Keenan, I.D. (2017), Improvements in anatomy knowledge when utilizing a novel cyclical \u201cObserve-Reflect-Draw-Edit-Repeat\u201d learning process. Anat Sci Educ, 10: 7-22. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ase.1616<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ben Awadh, A., Clark, J., Clowry, G. and Keenan, I.D. (2021), Multimodal Three-Dimensional Visualization Enhances Novice Learner Interpretation of Basic Cross-Sectional Anatomy. Anat Sci Educ. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ase.2045<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Branson TM, Shapiro L, Venter RG. Observation of Patients’ 3D Printed Anatomical Features and 3D Visualisation Technologies Improve Spatial Awareness for Surgical Planning and in-Theatre Performance. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2021;1334:23-37. Available at https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/34476743\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reid, S., Shapiro, L. and Louw, G. (2019), How Haptics and Drawing Enhance the Learning of Anatomy. Anat Sci Educ, 12: 164-172. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ase.1807<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shapiro, L., Bell, K., Dhas, K., Branson, T., Louw, G. and Keenan, I.D. (2020), Focused Multisensory Anatomy Observation and Drawing for Enhancing Social Learning and Three-Dimensional Spatial Understanding. Anat Sci Educ, 13: 488-503. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ase.1929<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the past few months, the FMS TEL team have been working on bringing a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to life. The course, Exploring 3D Anatomy, is an active, hands-on, and engaging online course now available to Newcastle students and staff! The course was designed by Dr Iain Keenan of Newcastle University and Mr … Continue reading “Exploring 3D Anatomy – A New MOOC Developed with FMS TEL”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[308,315,161,12,314,305,319,312,313,309,310,306,311,215,304,77,130,317,318,316,69,307],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","tag-3d-anatomy","tag-anatomical-observation","tag-anatomy","tag-canvas","tag-canvas-course","tag-collaboration","tag-course-development","tag-exploring-3d-anatomy","tag-free-course","tag-hapticovisual-observation","tag-iain-keenan","tag-international","tag-leonard-shapiro","tag-mbbs","tag-mooc","tag-online-learning","tag-research","tag-south-africa","tag-uct","tag-university-of-cape-town","tag-video","tag-visualisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1682,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}