Developing Media Rich Virtual Learning Material for Biomedical Engineering Education

Not all universities, and especially newly established institutes in biomedical engineering are able to develop and provide a high quality learning content. A distant, open and free learning environment European Virtual Campus for Biomedical Engineering (EVICAB) could provide a solution for that. The learning content has been already developed for EVICAB and is available in different formats, i.e., text based material delivered as HTML or PDF documents, animated material, electronic textbook, audio and video based material. Video based material is a multimedia application with considerable promise for teaching and learning in the higher education. Video lectures as a learning tool have been produced and tested in EVICAB. The preliminary findings show the results that encourage further developments of the e-learning material, including video lectures, for the Virtual Campus for Biomedical Engineering. Keywords— Biomedical Engineering, e-Education, Video