2020 Online Salon
ILLIAD: Illustrated Interactive Guide to Anatomy Dissection
Project Detail
- Entrant Name: Chloe Ng
- Membership Type: Student Submission
- Other Contributors: Miranda MacAskill
- Address: Unionville, Ontario Canada
- Client: Faculty Advisors: David Mazierski and Derek Ng; Content advisors: Robert Reisz and Michael deBraga
- Copyright: 2020 Chloe Ng and Miranda MacAskill
- Medium/software used: Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Dreamweaver), Procreate, Sublime Text
- Final presentation format: Website (desktop browser)
- Primary Audience: Undergraduate students taking comparative anatomy
Project Description
We created ILLIAD to address weak points identified by our content advisor regarding the laboratory component of an undergraduate Vertebrate Form and Function course. These include the weakness of a paper-based dissection manual that included only grayscale illustrations and instructions written only in text, as well as the difficulty that students were having when trying to understand the structural relationships between species. Features of ILLIAD that address these points include videos of the dissection process and the accompanying diagrams, a homology page to enable students to explore similar structures across species, and a quiz section within each module that simulate bell-ringer exams that students would encounter during the course. Multimedia learning has been proven to be beneficial to student learning, therefore we hope ILLIAD can help students overcome the current challenges they face within the course and enhance their overall learning experience.
