AN INTERACTIVE COMPUTER-BASED INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM ON HEART ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY 665
Jerry J. Mayo, Tom Adams, Kirk E. Mathias · Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · 1997
This project involved the creation and design of a multimedia educational program to teach heart anatomy, physiology, and electrocardiography. Theoretical learning principles included in the technology were: feedback, learner control, questioning techniques, orienting activities, and screen design. Each principle was built into the software program as a significant link in the computerized learning process. The educational content was targeted to exercise physiology students and to students in related science disciplines. Topics covered in the anatomy section were size and location, chambers, valves, vessels and walls of the heart. Physiology topics consisted of cardiac muscle, pumping action, excitation contraction and cardiac cycle. Electrocardiography topics included polarization, pen deflection, EKG paper, EKG waves, heart rate determination, laws of EKG, wave measurement, electrode placement, QRS axis deviation, and arrythmia interpretation. The intent of combining principles of learning with specific subject matter was to provide the learner with an effective instructional tool. The project was also completed to provide a model for the creation of educational software.