Reviewing the Role of Instagram in Education: Can a Photo Sharing Application Deliver Benefits to Medical and Dental Anatomy Education?

Instagram is an increasingly popular social media site tailored towards sharing photos and videos. An audit investigating current Instagram accounts focusing on anatomy education found a variety of successful teaching styles, including clinical images, descriptive videos, multiple-choice questions,...

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Autores principales: Douglas, Naomi Katherine May, Scholz, Max, Myers, Matthew Alex, Rae, Shivani Margaret, Elmansouri, Ahmad, Hall, Samuel, Border, Scott
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Springer US 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8368798/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34457591
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40670-019-00767-5
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description Instagram is an increasingly popular social media site tailored towards sharing photos and videos. An audit investigating current Instagram accounts focusing on anatomy education found a variety of successful teaching styles, including clinical images, descriptive videos, multiple-choice questions, and cartoons. Utilising Instagram for educational purposes, benefits such as ease of use, hashtags, and its effectiveness in conveying visual topics should be weighed against limitations such as passive learning and the requirement of committed staff to oversee its use.
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spelling pubmed-83687982021-08-26 Reviewing the Role of Instagram in Education: Can a Photo Sharing Application Deliver Benefits to Medical and Dental Anatomy Education? Douglas, Naomi Katherine May Scholz, Max Myers, Matthew Alex Rae, Shivani Margaret Elmansouri, Ahmad Hall, Samuel Border, Scott Med Sci Educ Commentary Instagram is an increasingly popular social media site tailored towards sharing photos and videos. An audit investigating current Instagram accounts focusing on anatomy education found a variety of successful teaching styles, including clinical images, descriptive videos, multiple-choice questions, and cartoons. Utilising Instagram for educational purposes, benefits such as ease of use, hashtags, and its effectiveness in conveying visual topics should be weighed against limitations such as passive learning and the requirement of committed staff to oversee its use. Springer US 2019-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8368798/ /pubmed/34457591 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40670-019-00767-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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