Incorporating Structural and Image Analysis Investigations Across the Biology Curriculum

生物科学（61）本项目将数字成像和图像分析技术纳入整个生物课程，以便更充分地实施研究性教学方法。该项目采用了其他大学成功实施的全课程成像项目的几个关键特征，其中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，这个项目的范围比其他机构更大，因为数字成像正在广泛地应用于最大的通识教育实验室科学课程——生物学导论。本课程面向非理科生、理科生和职前K-12教师。这个项目的目的是让生物学专业的学生在第一年就熟悉这项技术，并逐步增加他们在高年级核心课程和选修课程以及本科研究中对数字成像和分析的使用。为了实现这些目标，该项目使用了两层方法。在第一层，学生使用工作站，包括基本的数码相机，学生复合和立体显微镜，以及计算机来回答入门生物学和高级实验室的引导探究问题。在第二层，所有生物学专业的学生都在一个集中的显微镜设施中使用两个与高质量显微镜相连的弱光CCD相机，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。教员发展是通过对教员进行购置设备的培训来完成的。

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.