{"id":116175,"date":"2020-11-22T14:46:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T22:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/virtual-reality-to-the-rescue-innovative-pilot-program-transcends-remote-learning"},"modified":"2020-11-22T14:46:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T22:46:55","slug":"virtual-reality-to-the-rescue-innovative-pilot-program-transcends-remote-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/virtual-reality-to-the-rescue-innovative-pilot-program-transcends-remote-learning","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Reality to the Rescue: Innovative pilot program transcends remote learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/virtual-reality-to-the-rescue-innovative-pilot-program-transcends-remote-learning.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When COVID-19 reared its ugly head, wreaking havoc on education for students all over the world, <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.source.colostate.edu\/body-double\/\">CSU\u2019s human virtual reality program<\/a> stepped up to meet the moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew that teaching an entire human gross anatomy class remotely with only pictures would not be ideal for students,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/cvmbs.source.colostate.edu\/education-redefined-professor-awarded-for-propelling-students-toward-a-lifelong-love-of-learning\/\">Tod Clapp<\/a>, an associate professor in the <a href=\"http:\/\/csu-cvmbs.colostate.edu\/academics\/bms\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Department of Biomedical Sciences<\/a> and head of its human anatomy program.<\/p>\n<p>Moving BMS 301, Human Gross Anatomy, to online-only instruction this summer meant that students would not only miss out on the chance to work with and learn from real human cadavers, they would also miss getting to experience the new 100-person virtual reality lab Clapp\u2019s team built last fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When COVID-19 reared its ugly head, wreaking havoc on education for students all over the world, CSU\u2019s human virtual reality program stepped up to meet the moment. \u201cWe knew that teaching an entire human gross anatomy class remotely with only pictures would not be ideal for students,\u201d said Tod Clapp, an associate professor in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}