Video Instrumentation for Undergraduate Biology Laboratories

该项目的目的是为教学实验室配备视频成像和记录系统，用于大规模招生的入门生物学课程和高年级的寄生虫学课程。该系统将允许学生通过投射显微标本（制备的载玻片和湿载片）以及更大规模的实验设置和解剖来进行课堂演示。使用这种视频工具的目的是：(1)通过使视障和/或运动障碍学生融入主流而不是与他们的同学隔离，增加他们的参与；(2)加强学生在合作学习小组中的课堂陈述；(3)扩展学生显微镜的教学能力；(4)制作录像带和视频考试。目标是通过帮助残疾学生克服物理障碍，在实验室中动手学习，并通过吸引各种学生的学习风格，包括那些主要依靠视觉刺激来处理信息的学生，来拥抱课堂的多样性。合作学习方法的实施期望通过要求学生不仅对自己的学习负责，而且对小组成员的学习负责，从而提高学生的学习水平。

The aim of the project is to equip teaching laboratories with video-imaging and recording systems for use in large-enrollment Introductory Biology courses and an upper-division Parasitology course. This system will allow students to make class presentations by projecting microscopic specimens (prepared slide and wet mount) as well as larger scale experimental set ups and dissections. Use of this video instrumentation is intended to: (1) increase the participation of visually and/or motor impaired students by allowing them to be mainstreamed rather than be segregated from their classmates; (2) enhance class presentations by students in cooperative learning groups; (3) extend the instructional capability of student microscopes, and (4) produce videotapes and videoexams. The goal is to embrace diversity in the classroom by helping disabled students overcome the physical barriers to hands-on learning in the lab and by appealing to the variety of students' learning styles including those who rely mainly on visual stimulation for information processing. The implementation of cooperative learning methods is expected to enhance student learning by requiring students to take responsibility not only for their own learning, but for their group members' learning as well.