Online Multimedia Teaching Tool (OMTT) for Neurobiology

该项目旨在开发一种交互式在线多媒体教学工具（OMTT），供跨学科社区的教授和学生在本科神经科学、老年学、心理学、生物工程和生物学课程中使用，旨在提高广大学生对复杂科学过程的理解。该项目的目标是：1。通过使课程材料更容易理解和更容易理解，加强STEM对不同本科生群体的学习；2 .向学生展示基础科学研究与科学教育之间存在的联系；通过建立多样化的科学社区和鼓励学生与教师的互动，改善科学专业学生的招聘和保留。OMTT旨在通过为学生提供持续的在线访问其教授在课堂上使用的课程材料来促进学习。课程内容的交互式多媒体呈现包括滚动文本、视频、叙述和计算机动画，从而为学生提供了自定节奏的丰富多样的课程表现形式。此外，OMTT教育学生正在进行的研究和最近的科学出版物，因为它们与课堂主题有关。对于每个主题，学生可以浏览教授的研究实验室的书面描述，一个简短的视频，说明如何进行研究，以解决课堂上教授的问题，以及教授发表的文章的例子。该功能旨在提高学生对核心学科材料与创建该知识库的研究之间联系的理解，并促进学生与该领域教授的联系，并确定研究机会。OMTT还包括在线评估，学生和教授可以使用它来评估学生的学习情况，旨在为学习困难的学生提供早期干预。通过在线多媒体教学工具完成嵌入在学习练习中的数字实验室练习，学生有机会成为数字科学家。OMTT的设计便于其他学科和其他机构的教师进行修改和调整。基础设施的加强和广泛传播正在通过多种途径进行，包括在南加州大学和通过互联网进行的途径。

This project is developing an interactive online multimedia teaching tool (OMTT) to be used by an interdisciplinary community of professors and students in undergraduate neurosciences, gerontology, psychology, bioengineering and biology courses, and with the intention of improving the understanding of complex science processes by a wide range of students. The objectives of the project are to: 1. enhance STEM learning for a group of diverse undergraduate science students by making course material easier to understand and more accessible, 2. demonstrate to students the connection that exists between basic science research and science education, and 3. improve recruitment and retention of students in the sciences by building a diverse scientific community and encouraging student interaction with faculty. The OMTT is expected to enhance learning by providing students with continuous online access to course material used in class by their professors. The interactive multimedia presentation of course content includes scrolling text, video, narration and computer animations, thus offering students self-paced access to varied and rich representations of the curriculum. Additionally, the OMTT educates students about ongoing research and recent scientific publications as they relate to class topics. For each topic, students can explore a written description of a professor's research laboratory, a short video illustrating how research is performed to address the issue taught in class, and examples of articles published by the professor. This feature is meant to improve student understanding of the connection between core subject material and the research that creates this knowledge base, and to facilitate student contact with professors in the field and identify research opportunities. The OMTT also includes on-line assessments that can be used by students and professors to gauge student learning, and are intended to enable early intervention for struggling students. Students have the opportunity to become digital scientists by completing digital laboratory exercises imbedded in learning exercises in the online multimedia-teaching tool. The OMTT is designed to be easily modified and adapted by faculty in other disciplines and at other institutions. Enhancement of the infrastructure and broad dissemination is occurring through multiple avenues, including those based at the University of Southern California and via the Internet.