Interactive Animations: "Carnegie Mellon's
Office of Technology for Education and
Department of
Biological Sciences create multimedia materials for teaching and learning
Biology. After an analysis of a number of Biology courses was performed
to identify when and how shared concepts where taught, a team of biologists,
media programmers, and learning experts came together to create animations
designed to improve understanding of some of the main concepts taught in
Modern Biology and Biochemistry."
Biology Labs: "This collaboration has advanced from the creation of classroom teaching/explanation
tools to the creation of tools that can be used for student directed learning and to provide authentic assessment
of concepts.
The earliest of these was the Protein Purification Lab which allows the
instructor to provide the student with a virtual lab experience where they
can be given a unique solution in a beaker and asked to develop a purification
scheme to obtain some protein in its pure form. The results of their work
can be submitted to the instructor for grading.
In addition, we are developing
simulation environments that facilitate multiple, linked
representations
of concepts to be used in different learning contexts. They will
allow
guided inquiry as well as student directed experimentation and
data analysis.
These environments can be used as stand alone teaching tools as
well as becoming part of the interactive components of an online Modern
Biology being created in the OLI system."
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