“MedChemVR”: A Virtual Reality Game to Enhance Medicinal Chemistry Education
Medicinal chemistry (MC) is an indispensable component of the pharmacy curriculum. The pharmacists’ unique knowledge of a medicine’s chemistry enhances their understanding of the pharmacological activity, manufacturing, storage, use, supply, and handling of drugs. However, chemistry is a challenging...
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| author | Areej Abuhammad Jannat Falah Salasabeel F. M. Alfalah Muhannad Abu-Tarboush Ruba T. Tarawneh Dimitris Drikakis Vassilis Charissis |
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| description | Medicinal chemistry (MC) is an indispensable component of the pharmacy curriculum. The pharmacists’ unique knowledge of a medicine’s chemistry enhances their understanding of the pharmacological activity, manufacturing, storage, use, supply, and handling of drugs. However, chemistry is a challenging subject for both teaching and learning. These challenges are typically caused by the inability of students to construct a mental image of the three-dimensional (3D) structure of a drug molecule from its two-dimensional presentations. This study explores a prototype virtual reality (VR) gamification option, as an educational tool developed to aid the learning process and to improve the delivery of the MC subject to students. The developed system is evaluated by a cohort of 41 students. The analysis of the results was encouraging and provided invaluable feedback for the future development of the proposed system. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-89ef95a69fb948bd9a055e53c523f1d42023-12-03T12:32:11ZengMDPI AGMultimodal Technologies and Interaction2414-40882021-03-01531010.3390/mti5030010“MedChemVR”: A Virtual Reality Game to Enhance Medicinal Chemistry EducationAreej Abuhammad0Jannat Falah1Salasabeel F. M. Alfalah2Muhannad Abu-Tarboush3Ruba T. Tarawneh4Dimitris Drikakis5Vassilis Charissis6School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, JordanDepartment of Autonomous Systems, Faculty of Artificial Intelligence, Al Balqa Applied University, Al Salt 19117, JordanKing Abdullah II School of Information Technology, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, JordanKing Abdullah II School of Information Technology, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, JordanSchool of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, JordanUniversity of Nicosia, Nicosia CY-2417, CyprusSchool of Computing, Engineering and Built Environment, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow G4 0BA, UKMedicinal chemistry (MC) is an indispensable component of the pharmacy curriculum. The pharmacists’ unique knowledge of a medicine’s chemistry enhances their understanding of the pharmacological activity, manufacturing, storage, use, supply, and handling of drugs. However, chemistry is a challenging subject for both teaching and learning. These challenges are typically caused by the inability of students to construct a mental image of the three-dimensional (3D) structure of a drug molecule from its two-dimensional presentations. This study explores a prototype virtual reality (VR) gamification option, as an educational tool developed to aid the learning process and to improve the delivery of the MC subject to students. The developed system is evaluated by a cohort of 41 students. The analysis of the results was encouraging and provided invaluable feedback for the future development of the proposed system.https://www.mdpi.com/2414-4088/5/3/10medicinal chemistryvirtual realitygamificatione-learningeducationhuman-computer interaction |
| spellingShingle | Areej Abuhammad Jannat Falah Salasabeel F. M. Alfalah Muhannad Abu-Tarboush Ruba T. Tarawneh Dimitris Drikakis Vassilis Charissis “MedChemVR”: A Virtual Reality Game to Enhance Medicinal Chemistry Education Multimodal Technologies and Interaction medicinal chemistry virtual reality gamification e-learning education human-computer interaction |
| title | “MedChemVR”: A Virtual Reality Game to Enhance Medicinal Chemistry Education |
| title_full | “MedChemVR”: A Virtual Reality Game to Enhance Medicinal Chemistry Education |
| title_fullStr | “MedChemVR”: A Virtual Reality Game to Enhance Medicinal Chemistry Education |
| title_full_unstemmed | “MedChemVR”: A Virtual Reality Game to Enhance Medicinal Chemistry Education |
| title_short | “MedChemVR”: A Virtual Reality Game to Enhance Medicinal Chemistry Education |
| title_sort | medchemvr a virtual reality game to enhance medicinal chemistry education |
| topic | medicinal chemistry virtual reality gamification e-learning education human-computer interaction |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2414-4088/5/3/10 |
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