A professor at the University of La Laguna uses augmented reality to teach pathological anatomy

The researcher and professor Olga Ferrer Roca, Professor of Pathological Anatomy at the University of La Laguna, has begun to teach classes using augmented reality technology as a resource.

The professor of Pathological Anatomy at the University of La Laguna, Olga Ferrer Roca, has begun to teach several lessons in its specialty through its virtual classroom, using as support videos accessible through mobile devices that have an augmented reality program installed.. This is a teaching innovation project, sponsored by the Vice-Rectorate of Institutional Quality and Educational Innovation of this Canarian university, that seeks to take advantage of the latest developments in information and communication technologies.

Operation is simple: All you have to do is focus the camera of the phone or tablet used on the images that function as activators or “triggers” of the system, for the corresponding video to start playing. The user will only have to download the corresponding program to their smartphone, which is free and compatible with iOS and Android operating systems.

The lessons are available on the virtual teaching website of the Advanced Technological Center for Image Analysis (CATAI) directed by Professor Ferrer-Roca, which is open to the public, and in the virtual classroom of the University of La Laguna limited to students. At the web address www.teide.net/catai/patol/catai.html The software necessary to use this technology is available.

At the moment, the teaching pills made in collaboration with the Multimedia Unit of the ULL are available. (ULL Media) corresponding to the subject of the Degree in Medicine “Special Pathological Anatomy”, but several cutting-edge telemedicine subjects will soon be available, such as the use of iPhone in medical care or the “Health Cloud”.