With Open Heart, learners can perform, among other things, heart surgery, and learn a lot about how the heart works in the process.

Open Heart has lots of interactive components to help teach about the structure and function of the heart. Learners can...

  • put together the pieces of the heart,
  • make it pump by correctly identifying the blood-flow pathway,
  • diagnose patients, and
  • performing bypass surgery (virtually, that is).

In each section there is clear readable, easy-to-understand information. There is also the option to delve more deeply into certain sections — great for further enriching the faster-working learners in a class.

The transcripts of interviews with various professionals in the field of cardiology, not just doctors, can help learners gain a broader view of the people that are involved. There is also a great section on prevention of heart disease.

Find out more at http://www.cosi.org/files/Flash/openHeart/anatomy.html.