“It’s a really great visualization of a topic that can be extremely difficult,” said Tom Nicknish, director of sales and marketing for Cyber-Anatomy.
The system allows teachers to customize lessons and presentations for use in the classrooms, and also enables students to conduct exercises or independent learning activities using the Internet on Windows or Macintosh devices. Models are available for human anatomy, biology, chemistry, earth science and mechanical engineering. It’s learning aides that are really powerful,” Mr. “It’s not a replacement for textbook learning, it’s a supplement. The user can click different options to remove different parts and see how they connect to other organs, turn the model 360 degrees and see labels of each part. Definitely what we have now appeals to today’s kids, it’s so engaging that kids will stick with it.
“It appeals to students with a different learning style. A teacher can present the interactive models on a projector or smartboard while the students wear 3-D glasses and view the software.
The software is also available in traditional display for schools without 3-D equipment. You can read things in a textbook and still not understand, but an interactive 3-D model is very intuitive,” Mr. The software has also had recent large-scale adoptions in Russia, Brazil, Malaysia and Indonesia. The company recently announced that the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Education awarded it a contract to deploy the Cyber Science 3D software to 220 UAE schools. With Cyber Science 3D, teachers and students can also look at all of the elements of the periodic table, add and remove electrons, protons and neutrons in 3-D. That led to a focus on entering the K-12 market.Ĭyber-Anatomy’s Cyber Science 3D software allows students to see more than 400 different models including animals, insects and human body parts in 3-D in the classroom without having to do any of the actual dissecting. Once Cyber-Anatomy MedVR was developed, the company began receiving requests for fetal pigs and frogs, Mr. They decompose and compress, but with the Cyber-Anatomy software, the user can return and spend as much time as they want on the models. The software, called Cyber-Anatomy MedVR, took four to five years to develop.ĭissecting cadavers and real animals can be expensive, Mr. The owner received a call from a professor in the Middle East asking if he could develop a program for medical students to see the human body without having to use cadavers. The company is owned by a University of Iowa professor, but not associated with the university, said Rich Lineback, Cyber-Anatomy’s president. CORALVILLE-Textbooks just aren’t cutting it for today’s technologically-savvy students.Ī Coralville-based business has developed a product that it is growing nationally and internationally to improve the traditional textbook-based K-12 curriculum.