Digital Imaging: Infusing Active Learning throughout a Science Curriculum

该奖项将建立一个联网计算机和图像采集设备的数字成像和数据分析中心，供整个科学课程的所有级别使用。该设施仿照富兰克林和马歇尔学院生物系的一个成功的数字成像实验室(将于9750430到期)，并适用于我们相互连接的科学系。该奖项是(1)通过数字成像让学生积极参与科学研究过程，(2)通过即时数据交换和投影促进学生之间的合作研究，以及(3)通过将共享成像作为实验方法的课程联系起来，展示科学学科之间的相互关联。为了实现这些目标，代表所有科学系的教职员工每年都在使用该设施，这些教职员工的课程注册人数占学院所有学生的60%以上。其中几门课程包含了跨学科的实验室练习。该项目正以积极的方式影响学生在科学方面的表现，学生对科学的看法，以及招收学生进入科学专业。该项目的成果将通过讲习班、海报展示、出版物和网站广泛传播。

This award is establishing a digital imaging and data analysis center of networked computers and image acquisition equipment for use at all levels across the science curriculum. The facility is modeled after a successful digital imaging laboratory in the Department of Biology at Franklin and Marshall College (DUE 9750430) and is adapted for our interconnected science departments. The award is (1) engaging students in an active manner in the process of scientific inquiry through digital imaging, (2) promoting collaborative research between students through instant data exchange and projection, and (3) demonstrating the inter-relatedness of scientific disciplines by linking courses that share imaging as an experimental approach. In order to achieve these aims, faculty who represent all science departments and in whose courses greater than 60% of all students in the College are enrolled are utilizing the facility each year. Several of the courses are incorporating cross-disciplinary laboratory exercises. This project is impacting in a positive fashion student performance in science, student perceptions of science, and recruitment of students into science majors. Results of this project will be widely disseminated through workshops, poster presentations, publications, and websites.