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The MOOC will be organized by the Technical Medicine programme of the University of Twente. For the UT, MOOCs are a logical step to take in the digitizing of education, with distance learning, blended learning and the flipped classroom.' Technical Medicine Finally, MOOCs also contain a lot of material that can also be useful in regular education. The course has to be designed in such a way that it can be studied independently and requires little to no supervision. In addition, the UT wants to gain experience in online education to large amounts of students. It therefore seemed obvious to choose something health related for the first MOOC. At the UT, 'Health' is a fast-growing field and already about a third of research and education performed at the UT is health related, in most cases from a technological perspective. People elsewhere in the world can get a glimpse of the field in which the UT offers education. According to rector Ed Brinksma, the UT's goals with MOOCs are threefold: 'One: exposure.

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The University of Twente is planning more free online courses, also called MOOCs. We believe that the latter see it as a test for studying Technical Medicine, or want to use the course for their school cluster project,' explains Ineke ten Dam, project leader of the online course.

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Amongst those interested are members of medical professional groups, students and, in the Netherlands, university preparatory education pupils. 'We already have several thousands of registrations and this number keeps growing.

Everyone can participate, but the course assumes a university preparatory education level of mathematics and physics. The course will start on 5 October, lasts six weeks, requires about three hours a week of study time and is free for anyone who wants to take it. Participants will, on the basis of patient cases from medical practice, see that technological knowledge is required to make the best use of ultrasound imaging. The course has been developed in collaboration with various hospitals and medical practices: MST Enschede, Rijnstate in Arnhem, Radboud UMC in Nijmegen, Echotoon verloskunde in Groningen and Fysiotherapiepraktijk Topvorm (physiotherapy practice) in Enschede. In these cases, ultrasound can be used to discover this, especially if it is preferable to using, for example, an X-ray machine with radioactive contamination.

For example, a vascular surgeon would like to know whether there are vascular constrictions present in the patient. Examples include physical therapy, radiology, situations in which doctors want to have a general impression of the patient in intensive care and to support vascular surgery. Medical applicationsĮveryone knows the ultrasound images made during pregnancies, but there are many more medical applications for ultrasounds in addition to obstetrics. By collecting the reflected ultrasound an image of what is going on inside the body can be created. It penetrates the soft tissues well and is reflected by transitions to harder tissues, such as bone tissue. Ultrasound uses sound with an extremely high frequency. The become even more valuable if they understand the technology behind the device,' explains Wiendelt Steenbergen, Professor in Biomedical Photonic Imaging at the UT and senior lecturer of the course. 'Ultrasound is used by many different medical professionals. The Technical Medicine programme at the University of Twente offers a free online course starting 5 October: “Ultrasound Imaging: What is inside?” The course explains the technology of ultrasound, how it is used in a medical environment and how an understanding of the underlying technology will help improve patient care.