Surprisingly, distance education is quite an old concept. Its origins date back to the first
correspondence-based course, which took place via the postal service in Boston, USA, in …

Virtual and augmented reality have seen increasing employment for teaching within medical
and health sciences programs. For disciplines such as physiology and anatomy, these …

Due to increasing demands in the amount of content to be learned within a medical and
health sciences curriculum, there are benefits towards exploring options for new and …

Entrepreneurship has the potential to reduce poverty, stimulate economic growth and boost
innovation, in addition to enhancing social and environmental sustainability. In accordance …

The use of extended reality (XR) technologies, namely Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual
Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR) in education, has attracted much attention in recent …

Early exposure to radiological cross‐section images during introductory anatomy and
dissection courses increases students' understanding of both anatomy and radiology. Novel …

Mixed reality (MR) and mobile visualisation methods have been identified as important
technologies that could reimagine spatial information delivery and enhance higher …

This chapter explores the creation and use of interactive, three-dimensional (3D), digital
models for anatomy and medical education. Firstly, it looks back over the history and …

The effect of one of the most popular 3D visualization and modelling technologies with
haptic and touch feedback possibilities—augmented reality (AR)—is analysed herein. That …

The unprecedented rate of global, technological, and societal change calls for a radical, new
understanding of literacy. This book offers a nuanced framework for making sense of literacy …