{"id":8060,"date":"2017-09-22T15:18:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T22:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impact\/?p=8060"},"modified":"2018-04-13T10:58:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T17:58:16","slug":"osu-garners-national-award-first-ever-3-d-virtual-microscope-online-biology-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impact\/2017\/09\/osu-garners-national-award-first-ever-3-d-virtual-microscope-online-biology-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"OSU nabs national award for first-ever 3-D virtual microscope for online biology courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/news\/2017\/virtual-microscope-award\/\">Read OSU announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>OSU wins a <a href=\"http:\/\/wcet.wiche.edu\/wow2017\">2017 WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) award<\/a> for its groundbreaking, first-of-its kind 3-D Virtual Microscope and online introductory biology course series. The award recognizes innovative, technology-based solutions that transform the college learning experience.<\/p>\n<p>WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET) presents the WOW award to colleges, universities, and organizations who implement exceptionally creative, technology-based solutions to contemporary challenges in higher education.<\/p>\n<p>Developed in partnership with OSU Ecampus and Integrative Biology and Botany and Plant Pathology faculty, the 3-D Virtual Microscope essentially puts a microscope in the hands of every distance education student so they can complete the full biology series online. This online simulation provides much-needed student interaction with lab equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The physical and virtual worlds collide under the microscope with 3-D interactive to give students a real learning experience at a distance. Try it out <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/bi206\/virtual_scope\/build.html\">here<\/a>. Switch\u00a0the lamp from off to on to start using it.<\/p>\n<p>The project took one year to produce the 3-D microscope interactive project following six months of research and development time. The collaboration involved more than 30 OSU faculty, department heads, OSU Ecampus multimedia developers, instructional designers and other staff.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"725\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v0N9OXLDQHU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Faculty Andrew Bouwma in the College of Science and Genevieve Weber in the College of Agricultural Sciences piloted the development of the lab series. The end goal was not just to increase access to education, but also to make that educational experience rigorous and engaging. The comprehensive development process ensured the labs met the same learning outcomes as OSU\u2019s on-campus labs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI teach on-campus and online biology courses, and I wanted to find a way to give my online students the same, meaningful experience my on-campus students receive,\u201d Bouwma said. \u201cI started using the virtual microscope in my online classes immediately, and it\u2019s been an effective tool in my teaching since it allows me to give my students more realistic assignments in cell biology, which I believe improves student engagement.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_8066\" style=\"width: 457px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8066\" data-attachment-id=\"8066\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2121\/files\/2017\/09\/andrew-bouwma-smaller-web.jpg\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2121\/files\/2017\/09\/andrew-bouwma-smaller-web.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"400,253\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"andrew-bouwma-smaller-web\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2121\/files\/2017\/09\/andrew-bouwma-smaller-web.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2121\/files\/2017\/09\/andrew-bouwma-smaller-web.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-8066\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impact\/files\/2017\/09\/andrew-bouwma-smaller-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"286\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Bouwma, Integrative Biology Instructor<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Previously, an online student who needed to complete biology lab work would have had to attend an on-campus course where they lived. The lack of an online biology option was a significant barrier to degree completion. The question of how to teach students in introductory biology courses to operate a microscope online had troubled faculty for years.<\/p>\n<p>Students had two choices: buy a compound microscope to use at home\u2014with costs ranging from $50 to over $1,000\u2014enroll in a campus-based course at their local college and use its labs. Commuting to and taking a class on campus, however, would further drain adult learners of their most valuable and fleeting resource: time.<\/p>\n<p>As a land-grant institution, Oregon State University\u2019s mission is to increase access to education. This innovative online technology was important not only to help distance students take a biology course with lab work, but it was also important to improve the university\u2019s ability to meet its land-grant mission.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how it works. To create the virtual lab experience, developers mounted a camera on top of an actual microscope and took pictures of the lab slides. The photos were then woven into 3-D interactive, which allowed students to adjust the lighting, zoom and manipulate the 3-D microscope. The student view of the real-life photographs responds based on how they manipulate the virtual microscope\u2019s controls. The use of 3-D interactive is certainly innovative, but what is incredibly creative about this approach is the manner in which the real and the virtual are combined to give students an actual learning experience online.<\/p>\n<p>This biology series was created based on student need, which really galvanized everyone who worked on the project. That helped the team imbue all related projects with similar enthusiasm and passion, which ultimately boosted student success and removed barriers to degree completion.<\/p>\n<p>Other 2017 recipients of WCET\u2019s Outstanding Work award include the University of Central Florida, Blackboard Inc. and Healthcare Learning Innovations, a division of American Sentinel University. WOW awardees will be recognized next month by WCET\u2019s national community of higher education innovators at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eiseverywhere.com\/ehome\/214412\">WCET 29th Annual Meeting<\/a>\u00a0in Denver, Colorado, October 25-27, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OSU wins a 2017 WCET Outstanding Work award for groundbreaking, first-of-its kind 3-D Virtual Microscope and online introductory biology course series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[656646,1507,641038,1168277],"tags":[646150,88537],"class_list":["post-8060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-faculty-and-staff","category-ib","category-spring-2018","tag-author-debbie-farris","tag-online-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6vHeb-260","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10375,"url":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impact\/2018\/11\/from-the-first-3-d-virtual-microscope-to-new-antibiotics-a-year-in-review-2017-18\/","url_meta":{"origin":8060,"position":0},"title":"From the first 3-D virtual microscope to new antibiotics: A year in review, 2017-18","author":"nayaks","date":"November 20, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The College of Science highlights successes from 2017-18 from groundbreaking research on ocean acidification and earthquake forecasting to dangers affecting coral reefs.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Biochemistry &amp; 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