E-learning for Laurea in biomedical laboratory technicians: A feasibility study

Abstract

With the development of e-learning and its ability to provide rich animated content rapidly to a wide audience, new methods for teaching have evolved. E-learning tools allow building of learner-focused structured courses. The authors affords in this paper the feasibility study of a Webbased e-learning course in the academic degree of Laurea for Biomedical Laboratory Technicians (LBLT). Topic and basic aspects and essential requirements have been identified covering (1) the simplicity of the needed methodology to exchange didactic material and (2) the need of a simple and fast architecture for digital tele-pathology to exchange pathologic and /or cytological data. The last is a core aspect for the amount of data to be exchanged and the complexity of the applications even higher that other tele-imaging methodologies such as tele-radiology and tele-echocardiography. For these reasons a course of LBLT could represent thus an interesting bench test for the e-learning.