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

伊隆学院生物系计划对我们的项目进行重大改进，从根本上改变每年在人类和动物生理学和解剖学实验室注册的250名学生的经历。我们希望加强对假设的检验以及数据的收集和分析。通过计算机技术的应用，这种教学方法可以是最引人注目和富有成效的。通过一个有说服力的计划，系里希望在课程的早期引入计算机应用。作为大二的学生，动物学的生物学专业将会关注肌肉收缩、神经传导和心脏功能的基础知识。在高级课程中，这些现象和其他现象将在更高度整合和独立的实验室活动中进行研究。运动医学专业的学生将会获得更真实的人体解剖学和生理学研究，为运动生理学和运动机能学课程做准备。伊隆学院将购买13台Power Macintosh 7200计算机和一台Power Macintosh 7600计算机，装备两个独立的计算机实验室，以支持人类和脊椎动物解剖学和生理学的教学。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，每个工作站为三个学生服务。这些站具有适当的软件和CD-ROM能力，将产生深远的教学影响，因为它们具有极大的灵活性和测量、记录和立即分析生理和形态现象的能力。

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.