Developing an audiovisual notebook as a self‐learning tool in histology: Perceptions of teachers and students |
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| Authors: | Antonio Campos‐Sánchez Juan‐Antonio López‐Núñez Giuseppe Scionti Ingrid Garzón Miguel González‐Andrades Miguel Alaminos Tomás Sola |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Histology, Medical School, University of Granada, Granada, Spain;2. Department of Didactics and School Organization, University of Granada, Faculty of Education Sciences, Granada, Spain |
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| Abstract: | Videos can be used as didactic tools for self‐learning under several circumstances, including those cases in which students are responsible for the development of this resource as an audiovisual notebook. We compared students' and teachers' perceptions regarding the main features that an audiovisual notebook should include. Four questionnaires with items about information, images, text and music, and filmmaking were used to investigate students' (n = 115) and teachers' perceptions (n = 28) regarding the development of a video focused on a histological technique. The results show that both students and teachers significantly prioritize informative components, images and filmmaking more than text and music. The scores were significantly higher for teachers than for students for all four components analyzed. The highest scores were given to items related to practical and medically oriented elements, and the lowest values were given to theoretical and complementary elements. For most items, there were no differences between genders. A strong positive correlation was found between the scores given to each item by teachers and students. These results show that both students' and teachers' perceptions tend to coincide for most items, and suggest that audiovisual notebooks developed by students would emphasize the same items as those perceived by teachers to be the most relevant. Further, these findings suggest that the use of video as an audiovisual learning notebook would not only preserve the curricular objectives but would also offer the advantages of self‐learning processes. Anat Sci Educ 7: 209–218. © 2013 American Association of Anatomists. |
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| Keywords: | histology education microscopic anatomy education medical education self‐learning modules students' perceptions teachers' perceptions audiovisual notebook teaching videos video modules computer assisted learning |
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