National Database for Multimedia Learning Objects

The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Florence, has designed and implemented a multimedia digital library storing images, movies, audio files, power point presentations, and so on, all of them can be used freely according to the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike license in all kind of e-learning activities, personal studies and every non commercial activity. Digital imaging is heavily employed in medicine for diagnostic or health purpose as well as for educational one. Furthermore the development of the multimedia in the educational is helped by the Information and Communications Technology (ICT), mostly the Internet. Images of anatomy, pathological or not, microscopic or macroscopic, as well as interactive simulation of clinical cases and movies of pathological conditions can be very helpful for students learning complex situations and concepts. This is the reason why it is important to ensure the availability of digital multimedia resources free from copyright bounds and freely available for the scientific community.

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