Innovations in Instructional Computing for Freshman Biology

这个项目的目标是创造一个学习环境，在这个环境中，计算机既可以用作实验工具，也可以用作教学工具。开发的实验室实验1)允许学生通过使用交互式动画来运行虚拟实验，2)学习管理和控制数据采集系统，以及3)运行生物、生化和生物物理事件的模拟。使用Macintosh IIci计算机、数据采集硬件和LabVIEW 2(可用于开发数据采集程序或模拟的独特图形编程环境)，学生能够直接在计算机上设计创新实验。给出一个实验问题的学生，通过与计算机交互，可以控制动画模拟的路径，并通过实验得出问题的解决方案。

The goal of this project is to create a learning environment in which computers are used both as experimental and as instructional tools. The laboratory experiments developed 1) permit students to run virtual experiments through the use of interactive animation, 2) learn to manage and control data acquisition systems, and 3) run simulations of biological, biochemical, and biophysical events. Using Macintosh IIci computers, data acquisition hardware and LabVIEW 2, a unique graphic programming environment that can be used to develop data acquisition programs or simulations, students have the ability to devise innovative experiments directly on the computer. Students given an experimental problem can, by interacting with the computer, control the path of an animated simulation and experimentally derive solutions to the problem.