A Cost-Effective Approach to Producing Animated Infographics for Immunology Teaching

• Main Authors: Maria Helena Bellei, Paul Welch, Sally Pryor, Natkunam Ketheesan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 2016-12-01
• Series: Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education
• Subjects: infographics; immunology; animations; education
• Online Access: http://jmbesubmissions.asm.org/index.php/jmbe/article/view/1146

Multimedia resources such as video and animations are increasingly used to enhance student engagement and understanding, particularly when teaching cognitively complex concepts.  However, the creation of animation is time-consuming and hence, expensive compared to the creation of graphics. Recognizing this and the challenges students face in learning immunology, we describe here a process of a multi-disciplinary collaboration that produced a series of 3-minute animated infographics videos for tertiary-level immunology teaching within an Australian university. We evaluate the benefit of these and their merit as supplemental curriculum resources to enhance learning.