Analyzing Student Preferences and Accessibility for Online Anatomical Learning: An Assessment of BlueLink Anatomy

Abstract

BlueLink is a digital multimedia resource which provides high quality, expert‐reviewed anatomical resources free for educational use and accessible via the web. The BlueLink website was assessed by survey for user demographics and preference data. Data from the survey indicate consumers outside of U‐M are primarily learners from other medical institutions (85.6%). The majority of users came to the site via teacher or peer recommendation (58.4%), or an online search (40.7%), and most use the site for personal study purposes (91.8%). The preferred resources were 1) Online Practice Questions, 2) QuizLink Interactive Quizzes, and 3) BlueLink Cadaveric Atlas Images. Users suggest a potential benefit from making the site easier‐to‐navigate. These results indicate that while BlueLink has an international student user base, it can still expand to provide more of the requested video and animation‐based resources for its diverse variety of anatomical learners. These results demonstrate that digital resources, specifically cadaveric and quiz‐based, are highly utilized and preferred by anatomy students.This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2019 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal.