Biofilms: The Hypertextbook--A Web-Based Active-Learning Approach for Rapid Infusion of Emerging Knowledge into Undergraduate STEM Curricula

生物膜;超级教科书是一种围绕网络技术构建的教学资源，可以在DVD媒体上传播。材料以不同的形式平行呈现给不同学术水平的学生（从大一到大四）。除了主题的标准文本演示外，超文本还包含高分辨率图像、幻灯片、视频、音频和重要过程的主动学习模型。这次演讲的目的是使学生之间有高度的互动。创建生物薄膜的团队：超级教科书包括内容专家、计算机科学家、教育评估人员、图形和网页设计专家以及文字编辑。材料以一种便于各种学科（如微生物学、环境科学和各种工程子学科）使用的形式呈现，并用于不同长度的处理（从几次讲座到整个课程）。目前正在对它进行广泛的评价，以确定它是否为学生所接受，是否易于使用，作为一种支持课堂教学的手段，它对教师的吸引力，以及它传播和采用的速度。超级教科书的原型已经被正式评估，评估的结果正在指导进一步的发展。知识优势：生物膜已经成为许多领域的一门学科，因为研究表明，表面上的微生物通常生活在异质菌落中，具有固有的防御机制和其他在水溶液中没有的特征。在理解微生物生态学及其对各种相关生物（包括人类）的影响的方法上，这种快速的变化从根本上改变了我们对微生物学的看法，并深刻地影响了学术界、工业、医学和牙科的实践和研究。在这个项目中产生的超文本帮助教师们使他们的课程内容跟上科学研究的最新进展，使教学方法跟上科学教育的最新进展。更广泛的影响：在项目过程中，随着超级教科书的发展，它正以一种渐进的方式被广泛使用。它正在各种机构（从社区学院到R1研究型大学）的STEM课程中传播和评估，这些机构拥有不同的学生群体（例如，蒙大拿部落学院和其他主要为少数民族服务的学校），并且具有广泛的地理代表性。除了鼓励和促进将生物膜主题引入STEM课程之外，该项目还探索了超级教科书的一般概念，并首次对超级教科书对学生学习的影响进行了大规模的测试。

Biofilms; the Hypertextbook is a teaching and learning resource constructed around the Web technologies that can be disseminated on DVD media. Materials ares presented in parallel in distinct forms for students at different academic levels (from freshmen to seniors). In addition to standard textual presentations of a subject, the hypertext incorporates high resolution images, slide shows, videos, audios and active learning models of important processes. The presentation is designed to result in a high degree of student interaction. The team creating Biofilms: The Hypertextbook includes content specialists, computer scientists, educational evaluators, graphics and web design specialists, and copy editors. The material is presented in a form facilitating use by a variety of disciplines (e.g. microbiology, environmental science, and various engineering sub-disciplines) and for different lengths of treatment (from a few lectures to an entire course). It is undergoing extensive evaluation to determine its acceptability by students and its ease of use by them, its attractiveness to faculty as a means of supporting their classroom efforts, and the rate at which it is disseminated and adopted. A prototype of the hypertextbook has been formally evaluated and the results of that evaluation are guiding this further development. Intellectual Merit: Biofilms has emerged as a discipline within a variety of fields as research reveals that microorganisms on surfaces generally live in heterogeneous colonies with inherent defense mechanisms and other characteristics not found in those same microorganisms in aqueous solution. This rapid change in approach to understanding the ecology of microbes and their effects on a variety of related organisms (including humans) is radically changing our view of microbiology and profoundly affecting practice and research in academia, industry, medicine, and dentistry. The hypertext being produced within this project is helping faculty keep their course content current with these research advances within the science and the pedagogy current with advances in science education.Broader Impacts: The hypertextbook is being made widely and generally available in incremental fashion as it evolves during the course of the project. It is being disseminated to, and evaluated in STEM courses, at a variety of institutions (from community colleges to R1 research universities) with diverse student populations (e.g., the Montana Tribal Colleges and other largely minority serving schools), and wide geographic representation. In addition to encouraging and facilitating the introduction of biofilm topics into the STEM curricula, the project is also exploring the general concept of the hypertextbook and is providing the first large-scale examination of the effects of the hypertextbook on student learning.