Multimedia Neuroscience Education

“多媒体神经科学教育”是一个新项目，旨在将数字技术的进步引入复杂且不断发展的跨学科领域的教学中。我们方法的核心是坚信该领域的基础神经、分子和电结构和过程在时间和空间上不断变化。二维表示远远不足以传达这些现象的复杂性。最终，我们希望提供一整套动画和交互式多媒体资源，不仅支持神经科学入门教学，而且可用于生物学和心理学的相关领域。然而，现在我们正在寻求国家科学基金会的资金来制定、评估和实施一项试点计划，该计划涵盖一个单元“突触传递和化学信使”。我们计划通过利用计算机技术的多项新进展来实现这一目标。首先是价格适中但功能极其强大的台式计算机上使用的 3D 动画软件的出现。这些计算机可以运行功能强大的新型多媒体创作软件，从而实现另一个突破：我们将仅分发来自实验室模拟的视频并在 CD-ROM 上处理动画。该视频的所有控制以及用于 JAVA 的相关文本、图形和 3-D 模型都将保留在万维网上的神经科学页面上。除此之外，这意味着我们可以更新这些材料的编程，而无需使 CD-ROM 上的视频过时。 该项目由威廉姆斯学院神经科学系主任 Betty Zimmerberg 和多媒体制作人 Lance Wisniewski 合作完成。齐默伯格博士在神经科学领域担任本科生和研究生的研究员和教师已有二十年，在大学预科科学教育推广和预科教师培训方面拥有丰富的经验。 Wisniewski 制作教育电视节目已有 20 年之久，擅长计算机动画，最近又涉足多媒体应用。该项目将对本科教育产生重大影响，因为除了信息内容及其在空间和时间上的可视化之外，虚拟实验室组件还将增强批判性思维、定量技能和科学写作经验。最终目标是在全球范围内提供这些材料和实验室经验，并适合各种教育水平和环境，以传达我们对新领域（即心灵）的科学发现过程的兴奋。 NSF 表格 1358 (1/94)

"Multimedia Neuroscience Education" is a new project to bring advances in digital technology to the teaching of a complex and growing interdisciplinary field. Central to our approach is the conviction that the neurological, molecular and electrical structures and processes that are fundamental to this field constantly change in time and space. Two-dimensional representations fall far short of communicating the complexity of these phenomena. Eventually we hope to offer a complete set of animated and interactive multi-media resources to support instruction not only of introductory neuroscience, but for use in the related fields of biology and psychology. Now, however, we are seeking NSF funds to produce, evaluate and implement a pilot program to cover one unit, "Synaptic Transmission and Chemical Messengers." We plan to realize this goal by taking advantage of several new advances in computer technology. The first is the availability of moderately priced but extremely powerful 3- D animation software for use on desktop computers. These same computers can run powerful new multi-media authoring software that allows for another breakthrough: we will distribute only the video from our laboratory simulations and process animation on a CD-ROM. All the control of that video plus the related text, graphics and 3-D models for use with JAVA will be kept on our Neuroscience pages on the World Wide Web. Among other things, this means we can update the programming of these materials without ever making the video on the CD-ROM obsolete. The Project is the collaboration of Betty Zimmerberg, Chair of the Neuroscience Department at Williams College, and Lance Wisniewski, multi-media producer. Dr. Zimmerberg has been a researcher and teacher in the neurosciences for two decades at undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as being experienced in pre-college science education outreach and training of pre-college teachers. Wisniewski has produced educational television programs for 20 years, with a spec ialty in computer animation and, recently, multi-media applications. This project will have significant impact on undergraduate education because, in addition to the informative content and its visualization in space and time, the virtual laboratory component will enhance critical thinking, quantitative skills, and science writing experience. The ultimate goal is to have these materials and laboratory experiences available globally, and for a variety of educational levels and setting, in order to convey our excitement in the process of scientific discovery on the new frontier, the mind. NSF FORM 1358 (1/94)