Modernized didactic techniques and their impact on the teaching of histology by means of virtual microscopy

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Result on the web

<a href="https://ijvlms.sums.ac.ir/article_47754_4c17a8c513cacbc671123d31e6cdf9fc.pdf" target="_blank" >https://ijvlms.sums.ac.ir/article_47754_4c17a8c513cacbc671123d31e6cdf9fc.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.30476/ijvlms.2021.89765.1081" target="_blank" >10.30476/ijvlms.2021.89765.1081</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Modernized didactic techniques and their impact on the teaching of histology by means of virtual microscopy

Original language description

Virtual microscopy is directly dependent on the quality of computer equipment. The aims of the study were to find out whether and how the upgrade of the computer equipment of the Histology classroom was perceived by students and how this action could affect the students´ performance in tests. In this pretest-posttest interventional study we distributed a structured researcher-made questionnaire containing 5 questions to 83 students (23 males, 60 females, 20-22 years old) who had scheduled Histology at the of Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Palacky University Olomouc using census sampling method. The study group received education with old technical equipment for the first semester and modernized ones for the second semester in 2019. Moreover, we compared student´s performance in computer-aided tests. We compared the average test scores (% of correct answers) of the same group of students before and after computer equipment upgrade by Wilcox test. To exclude that observed improvement is caused by different influences as upgrade of computer equipment (i.e. better understanding of Histology in semester 2, approaching of the Histology exam, etc), we also compared the test scores of students attended Histology classes one year ago. We collected 75/83 (90,4 %) evaluable questionnaires. Our results of the questionnaire survey showed that the majority of students 62/75 (82.7 %) perceived a difference in the computer equipment of the classroom. They acknowledged overall comfort of viewing virtual slides using widescreen full HD monitors 64/75 (85.3 %), perception of details 59/75 (78.7 %) and decrease in the incidence of technical difficulties 46/75 (61.3 %). Moreover, the upgrade of computer equipment was reflected by the improvement in students´ performance in tests (p = 0.0002). Investment to the modernization of didactic technique is one of the important factors in e-learning teaching strategy of morphological fields such as Histology.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50302 - Education, special (to gifted persons, those with learning disabilities)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Interdisciplinary Journal of Virtual Learning in Medical Sciences

ISSN

2476-7263

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

IR - IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

162-168

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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