The University of Iowa: Multimedia Medical Education
Contact: Corey Cleland, Assistant Professor
The University of Iowa has made computer-based education a major focus of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics and created a dedicated Multimedia Development Center for faculty and student development of educational media. The Multimedia Development Center facilitates multimedia lectures, testing and simulations of complex physiological processes. "Virtual patients" will allow student to independently explore physical examinations and physiological systems without the need for patients or animal experiments.
Front Range Community College: School-To-Work Network
Contact: Gayle Mahler, Tech Prep Coordinator and Dr. T.J.
Kigore III, Instructor
The Front Range Community College plans to develop an application using Microsoft Visual C++ to interface with the School-To-Work network by the Denver metropolitan area high school and community college students. This application will allow students to help select their career paths based on their ambitions, areas of interest and abilities. This project will also facilitate access to information regarding "School-To-Work opportunities, scholarship availability, on-line registration, on-line access to personal information and on-line group discussion for students with local professionals.
Vanderbilt University: Electronic Laboratory
Contact: John R. Bourne, Professor
Vanderbilt University has developed a non-immersive virtual reality for teaching basic introductory electronic circuits. Built entirely in Microsoft Visual Basic, the laboratory provides students with a complete laboratory experience that student run before entering the physical laboratory. The lab looks, feels and works like a physical laboratory and contains help and continuous feedback about student performance. This laboratory can serve as a part, or replace, most introductory courses about electronics that are offered in universities, community colleges and in high schools.
Temple University: Teaching Interface Design and Systems Integration
Contact: Munir Mandviwalla, Assistant Professor
Temple University's Computer and Information Sciences Department offers a new course in user interface design and systems integration, focused on the design of highly integrated, collaborative and media-rich applications. The CIS department recognized that operating systems and application technology has evolved to the extent that it is now possible to create new applications by leveraging, existing desktop productivity tools with back-end services. This course teaches students to utilizes Microsoft Office Professional and Visual Basic for Applications to create an executive information system.
Columbus College: Solid Foundation in Visual C++
Contact: James R. Leonard, Assistant Professor of Computer
Science
The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Columbus College recognizes that students graduating with a computer science degree today must have as part of their skill set a solid foundation in object-oriented methods using C++ with development experience in Windows GUI environment. This department offers a number of undergraduate and graduate courses which provide students with C++ experience; Visual C++; Client-server, System Setup, Administration and Development, Microsoft Windows Development Using Visual C++ and MFC and Advanced C++ and Visual C++ Topics.