The Department of Anatomy at the Univeristy of Toronto has just released Neurons: Animated Cellular and Molecular Concepts, a web-based tutorial which includes some very high-quality Flash animations. Not only have they made the tutorial available to other institutions, but each of the animations used in the tutorial is available for download and use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-NoDerivs license. This means that teachers can use the animations in their lectures and include them when creating thier tutorials, provided of course that they do not alter them in accordance with the no derivatives restriction. Sharing these animations is a step in the right direction towards open knowledge and it would be great to see these animations added to the various repositories such as HealthLibrary.ca and Heal.
Originally published September 23, 2005 in the Amy@MEdTech blog.
Cool! What a world inside our self. The animations really help visualize it - maybe even more so that in “what the bleep” because you get to try them at your own speed. These will help with my sci-fi story, META as I try and describe how superconductor theory could be applied to neurons, etc. for extrafast thought.