Integrative Workstations to Enhance Undergraduate Learning of Metabolic and Physiological Responses to Exercise

运动生理学是运动机能学、运动科学和运动科学专业的基础课程，对未来的教师、卫生专业人员和研究人员特别感兴趣。运动生理学实验室的教学主要是通过演示来完成的（由于缺乏设备），尽管通过允许每个学生参加实验室实验，可以最好地将主题的相关性和兴奋性传达给最大数量的学生。现代化教学设备的获得扩大和加强了学生在本科运动生理学的经验，从而更好地了解基本的人体生理学原理。该项目的目标有两个方面：a）通过个别化和小组调查促进学生的主动学习，以及B）提供仪器，使学生能够学习目前设备无法研究的几个基本运动生理学原理。与运动生理学实验室的传统演示相比，计算机化生理学工作站（代谢测量系统和自行车测力计，与心电图仪连接）促进了学生更积极的学习。 该方法是对以前由NSF资助的几个项目的调整。 这些工作站的配置提供了一个“动手”的团队方法来理解运动生理学，允许观察和调查的实验室问题，由个人或小组的学生无论是在预定的实验室或课外项目。 该设备使职前教师能够学习该设备如何操作，校准技术以及可以获得什么样的测量，因为他们对自己，同学和大学预科学生进行实验室和现场测试。 此外，与心电图仪接口的代谢测量系统为我们的学生提供了以前无法获得的经验，但对运动生理学的研究是不可或缺的。 具体而言，学生能够测试运动对心肌功能的影响，并研究运动强度和/或环境变化时能量代谢的实时变化。学生还计划和进行研究实验，分析数据，并在年度运动/运动科学博览会上展示他们的发现。在实验室的增强培养直接解决问题的方法来学习过程中，并反映在学生的科学原理，概念和方法的理解增加。

Exercise physiology is a fundamental course for kinesiology, exercise science, and movement science majors, and is of particular interest to future teachers, health professionals and researchers. The teaching of exercise physiology laboratories has mainly been done by demonstration (due to lack of equipment), although the relevancy and excitement of the subject is best conveyed to the greatest number of students by allowing each student to take part in the laboratory experiments. The acquisition of modern instructional equipment expands and strengthens the student's experience in undergraduate exercise physiology resulting in a better understanding of basic human physiological principles. The objectives of this project are two-fold: a) to promote active learning by the students through individualized and small group investigation and b) to provide instrumentation enabling students to study several fundamental exercise physiology principles that cannot be investigated with the current equipment. The computerized physiology workstations (metabolic measurement systems and bicycle ergometers, interfaced with an electrocardiograph) are facilitating more active learning by students as compared to traditional presentations in exercise physiology laboratories. The approach is an adaptation of several projects previously funded by NSF. The configuration of these workstations provides for a "hands-on" team approach to understanding exercise physiology by allowing for the observation and investigation of laboratory problems by an individual or small groups of students either in scheduled laboratories or out-of-class projects. The equipment is allowing pre-service teachers to learn how this equipment operates, calibration techniques, and what measures can be obtained, as they perform both laboratory and field tests on themselves, classmates and pre-college students. Also, the metabolic measurement systems interfaced with an electrocardiograph provide experiences for our students that were not previously available to them, but are integral to the study of exercise physiology. Specifically, students are able to test the effects of exercise on myocardial function as well as investigate real-time changes in energy metabolism as exercise intensity and/or the environment is varied. Students also plan and conduct research experiments, analyze data, and present their findings at the Annual Movement/Exercise Science Fair. The enhancements in the laboratory foster a direct problem-solving approach to the learning process and are reflected in the student's increased comprehension of scientific principles, concepts, and methods.