MuBiLab
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Multimedia Laboratories in Biology -
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Multimedia Laboratories in Biology -
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The aim of this project is to develop a multimedia CBT application and to improve methods in the field of genetics and molecular biology laboratory education. A virtual learning laboratory has to be realised, evaluated and brought onto market. Starting from this special application methods and software tools will be developed, which will help to reduce the enormous expenditure during construction and care of virtual laboratory environments.
The project is put on double-track. A multimedia WindowsTM based learning laboratory will first be realised. The subject of this CBT is the hole procedure of DNA sequencing. Extensive preparatory works already exist to this virtual sequencing lab (briefly: ViSeL) today, so that the essential project part will be finishing and evaluating this product. It also should proof the communicability to other disciplines.The ViSeL software represents a combination of a virtual world of a gene biological lab and an electronic textbook. The customer is informed about the essential aspects of the DNA-sequencing procedure - of the molecular biological basics up to the concrete handling of the laboratory ware. ViSeL will be usable everywhere, where exists the regularly demand for education in the field of sequencing techniques. The ViSeL concept was honoured on LERNTEC 95, (Karlsruhe/Germany) with the first price and in October 1996 of the Federal Ministry for science and investigation (BMWF) and the Gustav-Stresemann-Institut (GSI).
Parallel abstracted from the collected
experiences with ViSeL a generic learning laboratory for biologists will
be developed, briefly GenBiLL. This learning lab represents the raw form
of a virtual gene biological lab. It contains the basic learning
units and a row of laboratory devices. Furthermore the essential typical
laboratory interactions will be implemented. As a result, essential draft
considerations and also routine work should be taken from the developers.
For further information concerning ViSeL,
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Or Email to dieter@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de .
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