{"id":347,"date":"2016-03-28T20:12:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T20:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/?p=347"},"modified":"2016-03-28T20:21:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T20:21:32","slug":"online-labs-meet-same-learning-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/2016\/03\/28\/online-labs-meet-same-learning-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology in 3-D"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Biology<\/p>\n

After six months of research and development and a yearlong 3-D animation project, OSU last spring launched a series of three biology courses online that effectively puts a microscope in the hands of every distance student.<\/p>\n

The academic breakthrough is the result of a partnership between Oregon State Ecampus<\/a>\u2014the university\u2019s online education unit\u2014and the departments of Integrative Biology<\/a> and Botany and Plant Pathology<\/a> in the College of Science.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe had to create an alternative that gives students the foundational experience of being in a lab where they can maneuver a microscope\u2019s settings and adjust the images just as they would in a face-to-face environment,\u201d said Shannon Riggs, the Ecampus director of course development and training.<\/p>\n

To create the virtual lab experience, Ecampus multimedia developers mounted a camera on top of an actual microscope and took pictures of what was on the slides. The photos are woven into 3-D animation, which allows students to adjust the lighting, zoom and manipulate the images as they would if they were in a Corvallis laboratory.<\/p>\n

The classes, developed by Dr. Andrew Bouwma and Dr. Genevieve Weber, have reached enrollment capacity quickly each term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Online labs meet same learning outcomes as OSU\u2019s on-campus labs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[717009,196231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2016","category-subfeatures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}