The Virtual Cell: An Interactive, Virtual Environment for Cell Biology

Phillip E. McClean; Brian M. Slator; Alan R White

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 1999 (1999) pp. 1442–1443

The Virtual Cell is being developed by the NDSU World Wide Web Instructional Committee (WWWIC), a multi-disciplinary group of faculty engaged in the development of virtual/visual worlds for science education (Slator et al. 1999). Other WWWIC...

Topics: Secondary Education, Computer Sciences, Information Sciences, Post Secondary Education, Virtual Environments

Molecular and Cellular Biology Animations: Development and Impact on Student Learning

Phillip McClean; Christina Johnson; Roxanne Rogers; Lisa Daniels; John Reber; Brian M. Slator; Jeff Terpstra; Alan White

Cell Biology Education Vol. 4, No. 2 (2005) pp. 169–179

Educators often struggle when teaching cellular and molecular processes because typically they have only two-dimensional tools to teach something that plays out in four dimensions. Learning research has demonstrated that visualizing processes in...