Picture this: you are enrolled in an anatomy course, either because you love science or because you had to fill a prerequisite. There are three ways in which you can learn the courseinformation: 1) in the real world, you travel to a cadaver lab as a class, and engage with a dead human being, 2) you listen to a lecture as you look at pictures in a book/computer or watch a video, or 3) you enter into a virtual reality cadaver lab from the comfort of your hometo join your teacher and classmates as you pull organs from a simulated human body, pass them around, and expand them so large that you can step in and examine the arteries, ventricles, cavities, and more. Two of these three are examples of active learning (1 & 3), with the…
