In a new approach to medical computer based education (CBE) students at several U.S. and Canadian health professions schools have been using an optical videodisc under computer control to study basic medical pathology. Each side of the videodisc has a single concept program which supports linear playback and can also serve as visual and audio databases for interactive presentation. The experimental programs were in use at twenty-two alpha test sites in 1983-84; thirty-five sites will be used in the 1984-85 academic year. Over five hundred students have evaluated the courseware, and preliminary data show that students learn the material by using the programs and that they rate various features of the programs at four-plus on a one-to-five scale. In their written comments, students have indicated that they believe such programs provide highly valuable learning tools. They say that they want more.
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