Helping Visual Learners Through Mobile Apps
While mobile applications and virtual technologies are not replacements for didactic teaching methods, they can provide a learner-centered space for investigation and reflect changing learning preferences. In collaboration with the Visible Heart Laboratories, Department of Anesthesiology faculty launched mobile apps to help learners visualize and understand transesophageal and transthoracic echocardiography. “We want to meet the needs of the learner rather than make the learner meet our needs. If you do that, the learning space is wide open to innovate," says Associate Professor Dr.