Anja Furtwängler, Chris Baumann, Kerttu Majander, Shevan Wilkin, Nadja Tomoum, Frank Rühli, Adrian V Jaeggi, Patrick Eppenberger, Nicole Bender, Verena J Schuenemann
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Background and objectives: Virtual teaching tools have gained increasing importance in recent years. In particular, the COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the need for media-based and self-regulated tools. What is missing are tools that allow us to interlink highly interdisciplinary fields such as evolutionary medicine and, at the same time, allow us to adapt content to different lectures.
Methodology: We designed an interactive online teaching tool, namely, the Mummy Explorer, using open-access software (Google Web Designer), and we provided a freely downloadable template. We tested the tool on students and lecturers of evolutionary medicine using questionnaires and improved the tool according to their feedback.
Results: The tool has a modular design and provides an overview of a virtual mummy excavation, including the subfields of palaeopathology, paleoradiology, cultural and ethnographic context, provenance studies, paleogenetics, and physiological analyses. The template allows lecturers to generate their own versions of the tool for any topic of interest by simply changing the text and pictures. Tests undertaken with students of evolutionary medicine showed that the tool was helpful during their studies. Lecturers commented that they appreciated having a similar tool in other fields.
Conclusions and implications: Mummy Explorer fills a gap in the virtual teaching landscape of highly interdisciplinary fields such as evolutionary medicine. It will be offered for free download and can be adapted to any educational topic. Translations into German and possibly other languages are in progress.
背景与目的:近年来，虚拟教学工具越来越受到重视。特别是，2019冠状病毒病大流行加强了对基于媒体和自我监管工具的需求。我们缺少的是一些工具，这些工具可以使我们将高度跨学科的领域(如进化医学)联系起来，同时使我们能够根据不同的讲座调整内容。方法:我们设计了一个交互式在线教学工具，即木乃伊探索者，使用开放获取软件(Google Web Designer)，我们提供了一个免费下载的模板。我们对进化医学的学生和讲师进行了问卷调查，并根据他们的反馈对工具进行了改进。结果:该工具具有模块化设计，并提供了虚拟木乃伊挖掘的概述，包括古病理学，古放射学，文化和人种学背景，物源研究，古遗传学和生理分析的子领域。该模板允许讲师通过简单地更改文本和图片，为任何感兴趣的主题生成自己的工具版本。对进化医学学生进行的测试表明，该工具在他们的研究中很有帮助。讲师们评论说，他们很高兴在其他领域有类似的工具。结论和启示:木乃伊探索者填补了高度跨学科领域(如进化医学)虚拟教学领域的空白。它将提供免费下载，可以改编为任何教育主题。翻译成德语和其他可能的语言正在进行中。
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Founded by Stephen Stearns in 2013, Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health is an open access journal that publishes original, rigorous applications of evolutionary science to issues in medicine and public health. It aims to connect evolutionary biology with the health sciences to produce insights that may reduce suffering and save lives. Because evolutionary biology is a basic science that reaches across many disciplines, this journal is open to contributions on a broad range of topics.
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