Progress 09/01/20 to 08/31/23
Outputs
Target Audience:The target audience for this software is the bovine anatomy learner at the undergradute, graduate, and professional veteirnary level with the intention to imapact the producer and animal care provider through outreach. Although significantly hampered by COVID, we were able to leverage the 2021-2022 yea to developof anatomical resources that were critical for both traditional (in-person) and remote instruction using the virtual bovine anatomy tools. These resources continue to be used by 146 veterinary,120 undergraduate and 20 graduate students/year at Colorado State University and are now freely available to all other anatomy learners via this site: https://virtualanimalanatomy.com/VBA/.These resources have been direclty intergrated into a new Applied Food and Fiber Anatomy class at CSUand have been evaluated using this student population (BMS380 experimental, BMS304 regular approved) course for undergraduate students (max enrollment 60). Information about race/ethnicity of the student populations is not available by class. Developement of the bovine claw zone module is was launchedFall 2023 for use at National Western Stock Show by producers Winter 2024. Changes/Problems:COVID had a major impact on our ability to disseminate programming and outreach into the classroom. We were able to continue with our dissection and curriculum development (Objectives 1 and 2) and have to continued deploy outreach programming but it has not returned to pre-COVID levels and the dairy we had hoped to test the claw zone tool with closed in 2022. We instead used our own students to test the software assets and program design. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The development of a virtual learning software has created research opportunity for a PhD student (Jason Martin, PhD completed Fall 2023), as well as profesional development in anatomy by members of the CSU anatomy team, and collaboration on VBA among anatomists around the world. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The website has been shared with outreach/extension agents andveteirnary anatomists worldwide. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The Specific Aims this project were as follows: 1) the development of a 3D VBA Pelvic Limb module for DVM education; 2) the creation of an UG Applied Food Animal Anatomy curricula; and 3) engagement of UG and DVM students in learning, teaching, and outreach activities that will result in the creation of independent anatomical learning modules for outreach engagement of producers and K-12 STEM learners using VR animal anatomy. All three of these goals have been accomplished with the continued used of the VBA in BMS304 and for outreach and engagement.
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Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2023
Citation:
https://virtualanimalanatomy.com/VBA/
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Progress 09/01/21 to 08/31/22
Outputs
Target Audience:The target audience remainsthe bovine anatomy learner at the undergradute, graduate, and professional veteirnary level with the intention to imapact the producer and animal care provider through outreach.In the 2021-2022 year, ourefforts have continued to resultin the development of anatomical resources that are critical for both traditional (in-person) and remote instruction using the virtual bovine anatomy tools. These resources continue to beused by 146 veterinary students/year at Colorado State University (CSU, Fall 2021 ). The resources were also used by 120undergraduate and 20graduate students at CSU Spring 2022. These resources have been direclty intergrated into a new Applied Food and Fiber Anatomy class at CSU (Fall 2021, Fall 2022) and have been evaluated using this student population (BMS380 experimental, BMS304 regular approved) course for undergraduate students (max enrollment 60).Information about race/ethnicity of the student populations is not available by class. Developement of the bovine claw zone module is expected Fall 2023 for use at National Western Stock Show by producers Winter 2024. Changes/Problems:COVID had a major impact on our ability to disseminate programming and outreach into the classroom. We were able to continue with our dissection and curriculum development (Objectives 1 and 2) and in the last year were able to begin some outreach programming again but it has not returned to pre-COVID levels. We have instead used our own students to test the software assetsand program design. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?This project has provided bovine anatomy knowledge to pre-professional and professional students. Professional development of skills related to anatomy, teamwork, leadership have been provided through mentorshipo and specific training for teh students working on the bovine anaotmy assets that have to be created as part of developing the learningtools. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Yes, the resulting VBA software has been deployed at CSU for testing and will be made freely available in 2023 as part of the committment to USDA. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?1) Complete asset development for VBA deployment; 2) finalize claw zone module and test in BMS304 population 3)finalize freely available VBA website final design
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Objective 1 is in progress, to be completed with a no cost extension in 2023. Objective 2 has been achieved and is the testing ground for VBA. Objective 3 is ongoing through CSU's SPUR campus in Denver with planned deployment of the claw zone tool for the 2024 National Stockshow.
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Progress 09/01/20 to 08/31/21
Outputs
Target Audience:The target audience is the bovine anatomy learner at the undergradute, graduate, and professional veteirnary level with the intention to imapact the producer and animal care provider through outreach. Our efforts to date have resulted in the development of anatomical resources that were critical for both traditional (in-person) and remote instruction using the virtual bovine anatomy tools due to the signficiant shift to remote learning as a result of the COVID pandemic. When access to primary cadaveric specimens was impossible, the 3D virtual bovine anatomy objects were available for student and instructor use. These resources were used by 146 veterinary students at Colorado State University (CSU) Fall 2020 as well as made accessible through the World Association of Veterinary Anatomists to hundreds of veterinary schools around the world. The resources were also used by 76 undergraduate and 42 graduate students at CSU Spring 2021. Information about race/ethnicity of the student populations is not available by class. Changes/Problems:COVID has had a major impact on our ability to disseminate programming and outreach into the classroom. We have fortunately been able to continue with our dissection and curriculum development (Objectives 1 and 2) and in Fall 2021 have begun outreach programming again. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Graduate and veterinary students have devleoped communication, dissection, and leadership skills. There is one (0.4FTE) graduate student supported by this grant, but there are approximately 4undergraduate, 3professional DVM, and 5other graduate students who have participated on professional devleopment and curriculum development workshops and training as part of this program. This programming is beign developed to take into K-12 classrooms as part of our college-wideoutreach programming. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?These VR assets have been by veterinary schools around the world though dissemiination via the World Association of Veterinary Anatomists. They have also been used by Wade Ingle, the Outreach Director for the College of Veterinary Medicine, with recent VR outreach events at the Larimer and Weld County and Colorado State fairs. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Overlays of anatomical structures, text to support the description of anatomical structures, and programming of these new assets into the Virtual Animal Anatomy program will occur in the next year.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The creation of bovine anatomy resources (Objective 1) has begun with the creation of the 3D objects that will require overlays and accompanying text before it can be fully integrated in the the Virtual Animal Anatomy software program. These 3D objects have aleady been used to support undergraduate, graduate, and DVM education at CSU through the 2020-21 school year. The undergraduate course has been launched (BMS380A2, Objective 2) and these resources are available to support this student population. These assets have been used by Wade Ingle, the Outreach Director for the College of Veterinary Medicine, with recent VR outreach events at the Larimer and Weld County and Colorado State fairs (Objective 3).
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