For Educators

Kimberlee Carter; Marie Rutherford; Connie Stevens

For Educators

Faculty and teaching staff: while this OER was curated and created for Health Office Administration and Health Services students in the first year of college, our hope is that you will take this OER and customize it for your program and share again.

Resources Accompanying this Edition

One of the areas we are most proud of with this edition is the inclusion of ancillaries for educators, student activity worksheets, and the Building a Medical Terminology Foundation 2e – Student Companion Workbook (available late August, 2024). The Student Companion is an additional educational resource designed to accompany our main text and provides access to:

Interactive H5P activities and text solutions for increased accessibility
Reinforcement activities in Word file formats
Worksheets in Word file format

Building a Medical Terminology Foundation 2e – Anatomical Colouring Book

Instructor ancillaries (available late August, 2024) include:

Assignments in Word file format
Instructor Planning Manual
Chapter slide decks [PowerPoint]

How this Open Educational Resource (OER) Works

The introductory anatomy and physiology content of this OER has been adapted from the OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology OER by Betts, et al., which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License and available for free on the OpenStax site. Following OpenStax’s leadership and in the spirit of open education, we have licensed this OER with the same license.

Images

Images throughout this OER are marked with their specific attribution/licensing details. You may reuse any image that is marked as openly licensed in your course materials and lecture slides provided you include the attribution statement and observe the specifications of the open license (a link to license is included with each image).

This OER has been designed to be as accessible as possible. All non-decorative images include an image description, caption or alt-text to improve accessibility. We recommend that you also include the alt-text or image description anywhere you reuse an image. Please note that due to the visual nature of anatomy textbooks, some students may still encounter barriers with this text. Students are encouraged to work with their accessibility advisors and/or adaptive technologists for further help.

Interactive H5P Activities

Interactive H5P activities are included throughout the OER to increase student engagement and reinforce learning. Text versions of the activities are included beneath the interactive element to improve overall accessibility and user experience.

Students who use the print or PDF/offline version of the OER will see the text activity only. Solutions for the activities have been placed in the footnotes section and will appear at the bottom of the page in the e-book or at the end of the page/chapter for the PDF version.

If you would like to reuse these activities you may:

Reuse the H5P within your LMS: download and upload into your course, creating a copy of the H5P that you can edit/update. This method is needed if you want to assign points or marks for completion (available in Blackboard Ultra). Please check with your OER or teaching & learning supports at your institution for specifics on how to do this with your LMS.
Reuse the H5P on an H5P site such as eCampus Ontario’s H5P studio: download the .h5p file as above and then add it to your account on your own H5P server, etc
Embed the H5P: similar to inserting a YouTube video, use the provided embed code and the H5P will stay linked to the original source, and be updated when the activity is updated.

When you reuse any H5P, please note and observe the specific open license (available on the H5P activity marked “Rights of Use” or under the netadata tab when you are editing the activity in your own system).

While some H5P types are considered accessible, layering them into Blackboard or another LMS can create some barriers to H5P use with assistive technology. We recommend that you post the text version of the activity alongside the interactive one, to ensure all users have the chance to access the content.

Please

Linking to this OER in Blackboard or Other LMS

The full URL to access the web version of this OER is: https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/medicalterminology2/

Some students have noted navigation issues when accessing this OER through a link in Blackboard. When adding the link into your course shell, experiment with the link options in student preview:

If the link opens WITHIN a Blackboard window (doesn’t open in a new tab or window), students may not be able to access basic navigation features, such as the previous/next buttons (located in bottom left and right corners of the browser window) or the drop-down table of contents (located in the top left corner of the browser under “Contents”). This works well if you want students to focus only on one page/section.
If students need to navigate beyond the exact page you’ve linked to, you may need to adjust the link to open in a new window/tab.

Attribution

Except where otherwise noted, For Educators by the OER Design Studio, Georgian College, is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0

License

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Building a Medical Terminology Foundation 2e Copyright © 2024 by Kimberlee Carter; Marie Rutherford; and Connie Stevens is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.