Authors:
Gregor Hohenberg
1
;
Gebhard Reiss
2
and
Thomas Ostermann
3
Affiliations:
1
Centre for IT, Media and Knowledge Management, University of Applied Sciences Hamm, Marker Allee 76-78 and 59063 Hamm, Germany
;
2
Chair and Institute for Anatomy and clinical Morphology, University of Witten/Herdecke, Alfred-Herrhausen-Str. 50 and D-58448 Witten, Germany
;
3
Witten/Herdecke University, Germany
Keyword(s):
Digital Learning, Basilar Membrane Model, Software, Education.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cognitive Informatics
;
Health Information Systems
;
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
;
Physiological Modeling
Abstract:
Teaching and understanding the principles of physiology is one of the most important and complex fields in medical education. This article describes the development of a digital learning platform for hearing physiology with computer experiments demonstrating the perceptual masking properties of the human ear. The basis for the development of this platform were two different hearing models: the sequential electronic model of the inner ear described by David in 1972 and the parallel Gammatone model by Patterson from 1988. The platform was evaluated from 44 undergraduate students of audiology. On a Likert Scale from 1= absolutely agree to 5=do not agree at all, students found the learning platform helpful for understanding “audiological physics” (2.10 ±0.67). After working on the learning module, the physiological hearing processes also became more evident to the students (2.24 ±0.69). They also were able to use the learning platform independently without relevant technical problems (1.
93 ±0.80). As a conclusion, the usage of such interactive digital platforms might also lead to more efficient learning pathways which interconnect knowledge acquisition, skill development and life experience at the same time.
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