Did You Know?
Virtual Medical Museum
Primal Pictures is one of the most complete, detailed and accurate 3D models of
human anatomy. It is an easy to use software available in the
e-Library which can be used as your virtual medical museum on anatomy
and physiology. This award winning software provides over 5,000 3D
anatomical structures, clinical slides, dissections, animations,
simulations and even quizzes. To learn more, Click Here
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 | 'Wiki' For Learning
In Hawaiian, Wiki means “quick”. On the web, Wiki is a collection of collaboratively authored web documents. Wiki tools are great for collaborative learning and content development. They are usually easy to learn and use, and lecturers can use it with their students using the 'Wiki' module in IMU Learning Portal. You can also use Google Docs for collaborative document development and Google Sites for collaborative website development. To learn more about Wikis, Click Here
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Featured Activities/Events
Learning Resources Department Quiz
Win an iPad Mini by participating in this quiz. There will be 5 monthly rounds starting in the first week of May 2013. All students and academics are eligible to participate. Details In your e-mail soon!
Learning Innovation Talk 03
Join us for this really exciting upcoming Learning Innovation Talks 3 (LIT 03) organized by IMU, which will be done FULLY ONLINE. Click here.
e-learning Awards – Call for Submission!
The e-Learning unit would like to announce that e-Learning Awards 2013 (first round) is open for entries. For more details regarding the eLearning Awards and submission process, please check the IMU portal by clicking here. Congratulations to all who were nominated. List of winners of e-Learning award 2012 may be accessed by clicking here.
Library “Product Highlight Of The Month”
Library organises product highlight activities every alternate month with help from PTS (Library Domain Expert) and the database vendors to create awareness and to encourage all library users to use the library e-resources. Below are the results of the information searching competition that have been conducted based on the 3 chosen databases:| No. | Databases | Date | Results |
| 1. | Access Medicine | 5 Mar – 7 Mar 2013 | 18 participants, and 8 winners announced on 8 Mar 2013 |
| 2. | Access Surgery | 12 Mar – 14 Mar 2013 | 31 participants, and 8 winners announced on 15 Mar 2013 |
| 3. | Access Pharmacy | 19 Mar – 21 Mar 2013 | 17 participants, and 8 winners announced on 25 Mar 2013 |
Interesting Resources
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These virtual labs train college students in basic laboratory techniques. Using specific scientific lab processes already used in food science, students practice the methods used by lab technicians and researchers in a variety of careers.
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 | Web Tools For Flipped Classrooms
This online resource provides a collection of web tools that we can use for Flipped Classroom sessions. Lecturers need to be able to understand how to embed technology into what they do. The technological side of it only comes into to play if you already knew how to balance pedagogical knowledge with content (subject) knowledge.
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 | Information Skill Tutorial
An online guide that explores research activities from planning a research to using information ethically.
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Highlights
e-Book on OER in Malaysian Higher Learning Institutions
This e-book explores the basics of Open Educational Resources (OER) and how several Malaysian Universities are implementing OER. 'IMU Webinar Series' is also mentioned as
one of the OER contributions in Chapter 3 (Page 36). You can access the e-book in two formats:
The printed version will be published by MOHE and
should be available in early May.
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Published Paper on e-Learning
- Baloch HZ, Dua K; “Social Media And E-Learning In Pharmaceutical Sciences: A Symbiotic Role“. Plenary section of 2nd Association of Pharmacy Professionals Conference at Maharashtra, India. The said abstract also published as a proceeding under the Bulletin of Pharmaceutical Research 2013; 1 (S). For Details click here
- Hanan Omar, Saad Ahmed Khan, Chooi Gait Toh; "Structured Student-Generated Videos for First-Year Students at a Dental School in Malaysia". Journal of Dental Education, Volume 77, Number 5, 2012. For Details click here
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