The Use of Interactive Lectures to Enhance Learning effort led by Melissa Kosinski-Collins One of the primary problems with the use of multimedia-based lectures like Power-point presentations is that students feel overwhelmed the amount of material and uninvolved in the lecture. Often, large amounts of information are presented in a highly structured order than allows no room for student imput or evolution of the material based on student-initiated questions. With the help of Jonathan King and Kate Bacon Schnieder, Melissa Kosinski-Collins has begun an effort to modify the current lectures of the Protein Biochemistry module of the Introduction to Experimental Biology laboratory class taught to MIT undergraduates. The lectures themselves will be enhanced with the addition of links that allow students to access short 3D manipulation excercises. The students will not only be given the opportunity to see these exercises in class, but they will also be encouraged to access these images and programs on their own outside of class, too. In this way, the class can ask their own questions of the structures during class and then answer anything beyond the scope of the lecture themselves interactively.

If you wish to retrieve the source files so you may actually modify/install the modules on mutiple computers, please contact Melissa Kosinski-Collins ([email protected]). We will send a CD with the apprpriate files. Modules have been constructed for Beta Galactosidase, Rhodopsin, Porin, and Hemoglobin. Hemoglobin Hemoblobin with Hemes Thrombin Antithrombin Rhodopsin Porin