EAGER: US Ignite: Digital Tele-Microscopy in Support of Teaching Biology

该项目探讨了如何通过将大学微生物学家和研究级显微镜通过实时，高品位的视频带入课堂来丰富高中生物学教育。研究级显微镜具有高中课堂仪器通常不具备的各种技术。诸如相位对比、微分干涉对比等技术使学生能够看到生物体中的细节，而这些细节是学生无法看到的。专业微生物学家能够提供有关标本的专家评论，并在对话中回答问题，这可以丰富学生的经验，激发他们的发现感。该项目使用千兆网络和超高质量视频将研究仪器和研究人员带入课堂。该项目将南加州大学的研究设施与公立高中查塔努加STEM学校联系起来。该项目的技术将允许南加州大学的研究人员将活生物标本置于南加州大学开发的显微镜下，并捕捉微生物的超高分辨率（4k）电影，同时将显微镜系统的高清图像传输给学生。它利用了查塔努加部署的全市千兆网络。该项目为那里的学生提供了与大陆以外的科学家合作的独特机会。

This project explores how to enrich high-school biology education by bringing university microbiologists and research-grade microscopy into the classroom via real-time, high-grade video. Research-grade microscopes have a variety of technologies not normally available in high-school classroom instruments. Techniques such as phase contrast, differential interference contrast, and others make it possible to see details in living organisms that students would not otherwise be able to see. Professional microbiologists are able to provide expert commentary about specimens and answer questions in dialogues that can enrich student's experience and excite their sense of discovery. This project is using gigabit networks and ultra-high-quality video to bring research instruments and researchers into the classroom.The project links research facilities at the University of Southern California with the STEM School Chattanooga, a public high school. The project's technology will allow researchers at USC to place live biological specimens under a USC-developed microscope and capture ultra-high resolution (4k) movies of the microorganisms while simultaneously transmitting live, high definition images from the microscope system to the students. It takes advantage of Chattanooga's deployment of a city-wide gigabit network. The project provides students there the unique opportunity to collaborate with scientists a continent away.