ABSTRACT
Online courses played important roles in biomedical engineering (BME) teaching during the COVID-19 epidemic. However, existing virtual experiment systems are not suitable for BME course "anatomy and Physiology". Therefore we developed a virtual experiment system "SHU-AP". The system is composed of six virtual experiments. To judge the feasibility and teaching effectiveness of the system, we used it for real teaching in Year 2020 and compared it with offline teaching. We divided BME students into two classes: Class A (offline experiment) and Class B (virtual experiment). Both classes were taught by the same teacher. At the end of the semester, we issued questionnaires for the two classes. The results showed that there was no significant difference in students' performance and teaching satisfaction under the two teaching methods. As a conclusion, virtual experiments could achieve the same teaching effectiveness same as offline experiments.