Moving labs online

March 15, 2020 11:46 AM

I coordinate Anatomy and Physiology I & II and teach genetics at a community college. My college is deciding this week if we will move online for the rest of the semester. While they decide I am trying to determine the best resources to use to for our A&P and genetics labs in the event that we move online. Do you have any you recommend? Also are there places I can connect with other A&P/Bio professors in the same situation?
posted by a22lamia to Education (4 answers total)

Have you talked to the librarians at your library to see if they have anything? Visible Body or similar?
posted by rabbitrabbit at 2:07 PM on March 15, 2020

Yeah, I'm an academic librarian and if you taught at my university you could come to me for help. Off the top of my head I'd show you how to set up your library links in google scholar and then help you do a search in there for recent articles on teaching A & P online. I would urge you to limit them to the last few years because on new technologies. You don't need to reinvent the wheel. Try "online teaching" and anatomy and physiology" as search terms there.

A while back, maybe 9 years ago, one of our nursing students took one half of it (I don't remember which) online in the summer from a state college in the Dakotas. She told me about it. I also proctored her exams. All that I remember was that they sent her frozen specimens, including a whole rat, and she had to videorecord herself dissecting and analyzing parts.
posted by mareli at 2:43 PM on March 15, 2020

A growing list of web resources for online lab modules, although not A&P specific.
posted by pemberkins at 2:47 PM on March 15, 2020 [3 favorites]

Anatomy - University of Michigan
posted by quercus23 at 5:29 PM on March 16, 2020