The Southern Regional Education Boards' Electronic Campus brings college courses from across the South as close as your computer. Search by college or university, discipline, level and state for more detailed information including course descriptions and how the courses are delivered. Connect directly to the college or university to learn about registration, enrollment, course description and cost. The Virtual Hospital, developed at the University of Iowa, offers multimedia textbooks, teaching files, clinical guidelines, assorted publications, and much more. Designed as an alternative to the traditional laboratory format for a college-level, basic Biology class, the application is an interactive series of modules covering a wide range of topics.
Topics range from cell chemistry to ecology.
It currently is being beta-tested in a class of approximately 500 students at the university where, in addition to using Bodyworks 4.0 for human dissection, it has completely replaced traditional laboratory activities. Virtual Biology Laboratory is designed to improve and expand the educational effectiveness and efficiency of biology laboratories. Students are exposed to the same tools used by biologists to acquire information about living organisms, such as microscopes, radioisotope counting, electrophoresis, and chromatography. Science Instruction Far and Wide Fruit flies mating in cyberspace and earthquakes on the Web are all in a day's work for two professors from California State University, Los Angeles. Robert Desharnais, associate professor of biology and Gary Novak, professor of geology at Cal Sate L.A. have recently ported two of their popular teaching programs, Virtual FlyLab and Virtual Earthquake to the World Wide Web where they're attracting attention from around the world.