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CREATING SHORT VIDEOS AS AN ACTIVE LEARNING TOOL FOR NEUROANATOMICAL STUDIES

Resumo

Introduction: Despite the traditional predisposition to favor textual instruction, research has been carried out since the 1980s suggesting the importance of image-based education. Among these lines, Levin, Anglin and Carney proposed the five functions of textual illustrations: Decorative; Representational; Transformational, facilitating the memorization of crucial information; Organizational; and Interpretation, in order to contribute to the understanding of the information. Seeing the importance of new media and exposure to images for learning, as well as first-hand contact with the subject, short videos were chosen to be made as a means to learn Neuroanatomy, a crucial subject for medical education, also as an active learning tool. Methods: A Bibliographic Narrative Review was carried out on the different ways of learning, memory functioning, use of illustrations and active teaching methods, as well as a text-book approach for the contact with the subject (Neuroanatomy), followed by note-taking on the subject. Structured scripts were created for the voiceover and the images, in order to build a narrative from individual photograms, featuring an animation. The scripts were directed to the construction of short scenes, favoring memorization (transformational), the organization of information in a coherent way (organizational), leading up to understanding (interpretation). The photographs were taken using a semi-professional camera, Canon T5i and a tripod, as well as a Smartphone Apple SE. Editing was performed using the Final Cut Pro program. Results: Two (02) short animation films of 03 to 06 minutes were made, with animations alongside the voiceover explanation for easy understanding of the contents regarding the function and naming of the cranial nerves, as well as another video explaining encephalic gyri and sulci. Conclusion: Experiments carried out on the performance of students with different teaching methods showed that students with access to multimedia had the greatest success, being a playful and at the same time efficient way to expand the student's contact with the subject and then to consolidate the knowledge, especially if the Student is involved during the preparation of the study material itself.

Palavras Chave

Neuroanatomy; Short videos; Active Learning; Medical Learning; Medicine.