Interactive Atlas for Internet-based learning

The raise in student intake, combined with less economical resources, has led to less time for practical exercises per student. This means, that there is not time enough to show all students, all relevant microbiological, parasitological and pathological problems.

Associate professor Jens Peter Christensen, Professor John Elmerdahl Olsen, and Professor Henrik Michael Elvang Jensen, have together with the IT Learning Center designed this project to ensure that all students have easy access to one comprehensive web-based, interdisciplinary and interactive photo atlas.

This atlas allow the students to explore methods and problems that are relevant, but not prioritized in the curriculum. Students can also review and repeat the content before the examination and later on in their education and academic career.

The disciplines of veterinary bacteriology, microbial food safety, parasitology and pathology have through the years used online photo atlases. These atlases are highly appreciated by the students and the microbiology atlas has more than 1 million hits per year.

With the tools available in Absalon, it is possible to take the next step and integrate the atlases actively in the teaching, as virtual exercises in the curricula.

 

The specific project objectives are:

 

• To ease access to, and combine existing web-based photo atlases used for teaching purposes, into one
• To extent the collection of web-based atlases, with a collection of slides relevant to teaching in poultry diseases
• To create an interactive teaching tool for interdisciplinary training of the 30 most common infectious diseases among production and the five most important zoonotic infections
• To explore the potentials in integrating the web-based photo atlases actively in the teaching