A blended approach to supporting student learning in clinical microbiology laboratory classes
Traditional approaches to teaching clinical diagnostic microbiology utilise a gradual but repetitive regime of exposing students to working with and identifying various bacteria growing on artificial culture media. It was anticipated that the addition of a two camera video display system, utilising...
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| description | Traditional approaches to teaching clinical diagnostic microbiology utilise a gradual but repetitive regime of exposing students to working with and identifying various bacteria growing on artificial culture media. It was anticipated that the addition of a two camera video display system, utilising two 65 inch plasma televisions, into the microbiology laboratory would successfully enable a greater number of organism to be covered in a shorter period of teaching time. One of the main objectives of the system was to improve the ability of the students (n=52) to differentiate between potential pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria based upon the colony morphologies of the organisms on various culture media. 94% of the students agreed that their ability to recognize potential pathogens growing on agar media was improved by using the system. 100% of students agreed that the video projection system was a positive addition to the microbiology laboratory and 100% agreed that using the system during practical classes enhanced their learning of the material in the course. 90% feel that a similar system would be useful in other microbiology units they have studied. The system successfully enabled a content rich syllabus to be taught in limited period of time. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-389782021-01-25T05:50:00Z A blended approach to supporting student learning in clinical microbiology laboratory classes Costantino, Paul microscopic images clinical microbiology video display macroscopic images Traditional approaches to teaching clinical diagnostic microbiology utilise a gradual but repetitive regime of exposing students to working with and identifying various bacteria growing on artificial culture media. It was anticipated that the addition of a two camera video display system, utilising two 65 inch plasma televisions, into the microbiology laboratory would successfully enable a greater number of organism to be covered in a shorter period of teaching time. One of the main objectives of the system was to improve the ability of the students (n=52) to differentiate between potential pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria based upon the colony morphologies of the organisms on various culture media. 94% of the students agreed that their ability to recognize potential pathogens growing on agar media was improved by using the system. 100% of students agreed that the video projection system was a positive addition to the microbiology laboratory and 100% agreed that using the system during practical classes enhanced their learning of the material in the course. 90% feel that a similar system would be useful in other microbiology units they have studied. The system successfully enabled a content rich syllabus to be taught in limited period of time. 2012 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38978 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7870 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | microscopic images clinical microbiology video display macroscopic images Costantino, Paul A blended approach to supporting student learning in clinical microbiology laboratory classes |
| title | A blended approach to supporting student learning in clinical microbiology laboratory classes |
| title_full | A blended approach to supporting student learning in clinical microbiology laboratory classes |
| title_fullStr | A blended approach to supporting student learning in clinical microbiology laboratory classes |
| title_full_unstemmed | A blended approach to supporting student learning in clinical microbiology laboratory classes |
| title_short | A blended approach to supporting student learning in clinical microbiology laboratory classes |
| title_sort | blended approach to supporting student learning in clinical microbiology laboratory classes |
| topic | microscopic images clinical microbiology video display macroscopic images |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7870 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38978 |