Educational Development of Judishapur

Educational Development of Judishapur

Development of a game-based smartphone software to teach medical parasitology laboratory courses

Document Type : Short َArticle

Authors
Ehsan Beigzadeh 1
Fateme Tahmasebioldaji 2
Kaveh Eslami 3
Reza Abouali 4
Reza Arjmand 5
1 PhD Condidate, Computer Engineering- Software, Islamic Azad University, Research Science Branch,Tehran, Iran.
2 دانشگاه علوم پزشکی شیراز
3 Kaveh Eslami: Faculty member, Clinical Pharmacy Department, School of Pharmacy, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
4 BSc Student, Department of medical laboratory science, School of Paramedicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz. Iran.
5 Faculty member, Department of Parasitology, School of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
10.22118/edc.2020.261900.1645
Abstract
After the Covid-19 epidemic and the problem of students attending classes, especially practical courses that are generally not available to online system which require physical presence at the school, hence the need to use new technologies for e-learning and distance learning was further considered. Therefore, in order to provide appropriate and qualified laboratory courses in medical parasitology and also to see the diagnostic slides of different parasites, we developed a mobile game-based software which enabled students to move virtually in the laboratory and view different diagnostic slides. The results showed that educational concepts, including detection of the parasite slides as well as theoretical concepts related to each can be provided to students through smartphone’ game-based software. In terms of user experience, this tool seems to be easy to use for people who are already familiar with the environment of field games and field movement, however, for people unfamiliar with how to control the space of environmental games, it seems somewhat strange and complex.
 
 
Keywords
Game-based reconstruction
gamification
medical parasitology
diagnostic slides
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Educational Development of Judishapur
Volume 11, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
autumn 2020
Autumn 2020
Pages 607-615