Enhancing Student Learning with the Use of Computers in General Human Anatomy

Chabot学院的人体解剖学课程《解剖学1》目前使用猫咪解剖和模型授课。一具人类身体被近500名学生使用。过去五年的学生成功率约为60%，以及在三门健康科学课程序列中失去了特定群体的学生，这表明我们没有满足一些OUT学生的特殊需求。已经采取了一些步骤来解决这些问题，包括实施课程的先决条件，并计划购买六台计算机和软件，供生理学和解剖学学生共享。此外，该学院还同意购买三台计算机和一套软件，供解剖学专业的学生专用。拟议的项目将采取下一步行动。该项目的目标是通过使教学尽可能简洁和直接，并通过提供更多的个性化教学机会，增加对互联网的访问以促进以学生为基础的实验探究，以计算机化和身体解剖取代CAT解剖，以及通过利用计算机化显微图像加强组织学研究，来增加学生在解剖学课程中的留存和成功。使我们能够实现目标所需的设备包括5台带有购物车和安全包的奔腾计算机、5套光盘软件和一个徕卡-EWS软件程序。

Anatomy 1, the human anatomy course at Chabot College, is currently taught using cat dissection and models. One human cadaver is used by almost five hundred students. A student success rate of about 60% over the past five years and loss of specific groups of students within the three course health science sequence is an indication that we are not meeting the special needs of some of out students. Some steps have been taken to address these issues including implementation of prerequisites for the course and a planned purchase of six computers and software to be shared by physiology and anatomy students. In addition, the college has agreed to purchase three computers and sets of software for exclusive use by anatomy students. The proposed project takes the next step. The objectives of this project are to increase student retention and success in the anatomy course by making instruction as concise and direct as possible and by offering more opportunities for individualized instruction, increasing access to the Internet to promote student-based experimental inquiry, replacing cat dissection with computerized and cadaver dissection, and by enhancing histological studies with computerized micrographs. The equipment needed to enable us to meet out objectives includes 5 Pentium computers with carts and security packages, 5 sets of CD-ROM software, and a LEICA-EWS software program.