"A Day in the Life of a
Plant"
Learner-Centered, Web-based Education CEA Website
& Simulation Modules
Efren Fitz-Rodriguez, PhD Student,
Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
This interdisciplinary collaboration will
create an instructional website and a series of animated interactive
teaching modules that simulate a spectrum of controlled environment
engineering, plant biology/physiology, and environmental concepts. This
collection of interactive animations, streaming videos, and instructional
modules, which we have named, a “Day in the Life” (DITL) of a plant, will
provide instructors and students within the College of Agriculture and
Life Sciences (CALS) with innovative and engaging learner-centered,
asynchronous educational tools designed to concretely demonstrate the
often abstract or complex concepts and principles discussed in traditional
classroom lecture. The main goal of the site content and the simulations
is for students to achieve a deeper, more applicable understanding of
their course material and ultimately to gain an elementary understanding
of the extremely complex and dynamic interrelationships among plant
biology/physiology, greenhouse systems, and their common environments. The
teaching modules will be utilized as the fundamental basis of 4 courses (2
graduate, 2 undergraduate).
Supported by: USDA Higher Education
Challenge grant program with University of Vermont, Florida and
Ohio
Cooperators: Dr. Gene Giacomelli, Dr. Chieri Kubota
In Progress
2003 – 2006 |
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