Developmental Biology Courseware that Integrates Multimedia Technology into the Laboratory and Classroom Experience

生物科学(61)学生作为积极的学习者和研究人员参与科学学习对科学的学习至关重要。使用多媒体技术来促进这一目标提供了一种向大量学生提供材料的廉价方式，并鼓励学生成为独立的学习者。这个项目正在开发多媒体课件，为正在探索发育生物学领域的本科生提供丰富的资源。这个领域最近获得了巨大的重要性，因为它通过克隆、基因工程、辅助生殖技术等技术与我们的日常生活相关，以及我们认识到环境对发展的影响。重要的是让大学生了解这一领域，并提供使其既令人兴奋又容易获得的教育材料。这个项目正在开发的多媒体课件包括一张互动光盘，它与一个互动网站接口。这个CD-ROM/Web混合体指导学生在这个领域中使用的技术和生物体的生物学。这款课程名为Vade Mecum，拉丁语的意思是“Go With Me”，这是一个过去用来指代手册或手册的术语，在这里用来指这款课程的可移植性，有助于学生用它来探索发育生物学。Vade Mecum的优势之一是它与实验室手册完全集成，并与该领域的主要教科书协调一致。这创造了一个统一的套餐，促进了教和学。Vade Mecum使用QuickTime电影、QuickTime虚拟现实模块、广泛的标签照片图库、交互式学习序列、谜题、问题和网络链接来向学生交流如何创建他们自己的研究工具，如何使用各种模式生物，以及如何理解这些生物的复杂生命周期和发育。网络模块允许并鼓励学生在“虚拟海报会议”和“虚拟圆桌会议”部分张贴他们自己的工作和讨论。通过向学生展示低成本实验的方法，如何用普通、廉价的材料制造他们自己的工具，如何改装廉价的显微镜以使其成为昂贵的仪器，以及通过将Vade Mecum CD的成本保持在最低并使Vade Mecum网站对所有人可用，本课程材料将对所有机构的学习有用，无论其财务状况如何。

Biological Sciences (61) It is paramount to the learning of science that students participate in science as active learners and researchers. The use of multimedia technology to facilitate this goal offers an inexpensive way of making materials available to a large number of students and encourages students to be independent learners. This project is developing multimedia courseware that makes a wealth of resources available to undergraduate college students who are exploring the field of developmental biology. This field has gained tremendous importance recently because of its relevance to our daily lives through techniques such as cloning, genetic engineering, assisted reproductive techniques, and our realization of environmental impacts on development. It is important that college students gain an understanding of this field and that educational materials be available that make it both exciting and accessible. The multimedia courseware this project is developing consists of an interactive CD-ROM that interfaces with an interactive Web site. This CD-ROM/Web hybrid instructs students on techniques and the biology of organisms used in this field. The courseware is called Vade Mecum, Latin for "go with me," which was a term used in the past to designate a manual or handbook, and is used here to refer to the portability of this courseware, aiding its usefulness as the student uses it to explore developmental biology. One of the strengths of Vade Mecum is that it is fully integrated with a laboratory manual and coordinated with a major textbook in the field. This creates a unified package that facilitates both teaching and learning. Vade Mecum uses QuickTime movies, QuickTime Virtual Reality modules, an extensive gallery of labeled photographs, interactive learning sequences, puzzles, questions, and Web links to communicate to students how to create their own investigative tools, how to work with various model organisms, and how to understand the complex life cycles and development of these organisms. Web modules allow and encourage students to post their own work and discussions in the "Virtual Poster Session" and "Virtual Round Table" sections. By showing students the methods for low-cost experiments, how to construct their own tools out of common, inexpensive materials, how to adapt an inexpensive microscope to have it perform as an expensive instrument, and by keeping the cost of the Vade Mecum CD to a minimum and making the Vade Mecum Web Site available to all, this course material will be useful to learning at all institutions regardless of their financial status.