Incorporating Structural and Image Analysis Investigations Across the Biology Curriculum

生物科学（61）该项目将数字成像和图像分析技术纳入整个生物课程，以便更充分地实施调查教学方法。该项目采用了在其他大学成功实施的全宇宙成像项目的几个关键特征，最著名的是富兰克林和马歇尔学院、库茨敦大学和肯特州立大学。然而，该项目的范围比其他机构更大，因为数字成像正在最大的通识教育实验室科学课-生物学导论中广泛使用。本课程服务于非科学专业，科学专业和职前K-12教师。该项目旨在通过在第一年向生物学专业的学生介绍这项技术，并在他们的上师核心和选修课程以及本科研究中逐步增加他们对数字成像和分析的使用，为生物学专业的学生提供这项技术。为了实现这些目标，该项目采用了两级办法。在第一层学生使用工作站组成的基本数码相机，学生化合物和立体显微镜，和计算机来回答两个生物学导论和上师实验室的引导询问问题。在第二层，连接到高品质显微镜的两个低亮度CCD摄像机正在由所有生物学专业的学生在一个集中的显微镜设施中使用，以在课堂和研究项目中进行更复杂的数字成像和定量图像分析。教师队伍的发展是通过对所购置设备的教员培训来实现的。

Biological Sciences (61) This project is incorporating digital imaging and image analysis technology across the biology curriculum so as to more fully implement investigative pedagogical approaches. The project adapts several key features of curriculum-wide imaging projects successfully implemented at other universities, most notably Franklin and Marshall College, Kutztown University, and Kent State University. However, the scope of the project is larger than those at other institutions in that digital imaging is being used extensively in the largest General Education lab science class, Introductory Biology. This course serves non-science majors, science majors, and pre-service K-12 teachers. The project is organized to provide Biology majors proficiency with this technology by introducing them to it in their first year and incrementally increasing their use of digital imaging and analysis in their upper division core and elective courses and undergraduate research. To accomplish these goals, the project is using a two-tiered approach. In the first tier students use workstations consisting of basic digital cameras, student compound and stereo microscopes, and computers to answer guided-inquiry questions in both Introductory Biology and upper division labs. At the second tier, two low-light level CCD cameras attached to high-quality microscopes are being used by all Biology majors in a centralized microscope facility to perform more sophisticated digital imaging and quantitative image analysis in classes and research projects. Faculty development is being accomplished through instructor training on equipment acquired.