A Microcomputer Laboratory to Facilitate and Enhance Undergraduate Education in Anatomy and Physiology

促进和加强解剖学和生理学本科教育的微计算机实验室

• 批准号: 9751514
• 负责人: Herbert House
• 金额: $ 3.15万
• 依托单位: Elon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-08-15 至 1999-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9751514&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Microcomputer; Laboratory; Facilitate; Enhance; Undergraduate

The Biology Department of Elon College plans a significant improvement of our program to fundamentally alter the experiences of 250 students enrolled annually in the human and animal physiology and anatomy laboratories addressed in this proposal. We want to enhance testing of hypotheses and data collection and analysis. This pedagogical approach can be the most dramatic and productive through the application of computer technologies. Through a cogent program the Department wants to introduce computer applications early in the courses. As sophomores, biology majors in zoology will be concerned with the fundamentals of muscle contraction, nerve conductance and cardiac function. In upper-level courses these phenomena and others will be investigated in more highly integrated and independent laboratory activities. Students in sports medicine will be provided a more realistic study of human anatomy and physiology in preparation for courses in exercise physiology and kinesiology. Elon College will purchase 13 Power Macintosh 7200 computers and one Power Macintosh 7600 computer to equip two separate computer laboratories to support the instruction of human and vertebrate anatomy and physiology. The anatomy group will consist of six student workstations while the physiology group will consist of one instructor's station/server and seven student workstations, with each workstation serving three students. These stations, with appropriate software and CD-ROM capabilities, will have far reaching pedagogic consequences because of their tremendous flexibility and capacity to measure, record and immediately analyze physiological and morphological phenomena.

埃隆学院生物系计划对我们的计划进行重大改进，从根本上改变本提案中涉及的人体和动物生理学和解剖学实验室每年注册的250名学生的体验。我们希望加强对假设的检验以及数据收集和分析。通过应用计算机技术，这种教学方法可以是最戏剧性和最有成效的。通过一个令人信服的计划，该系希望在课程的早期介绍计算机应用。作为二年级学生，动物学专业的生物学专业将关注肌肉收缩、神经传导和心脏功能的基本原理。在高级课程中，这些现象和其他现象将在更高度综合和独立的实验室活动中进行研究。运动医学的学生将被提供一个更现实的人体解剖学和生理学的学习，为运动生理学和运动学的课程做准备。Elon College将购买13台Power Macintosh 7200计算机和1台Power Macintosh 7600计算机，以配备两个独立的计算机实验室，以支持人类和脊椎动物解剖和生理学的教学。解剖学组将由六个学生工作站组成，而生理学组将由一个教师工作站/服务器和七个学生工作站组成，每个工作站为三名学生服务。具有适当的软件和光盘能力的这些站将产生深远的教学影响，因为它们具有测量、记录和立即分析生理和形态现象的巨大灵活性和能力。