Biotechnology
Bring the Real World to Your Students
Give your learners test drive a future in biotechnology. As part of this innovative career simulation, the student will live the life of a new hire in a Life Sciences company. They’ll get faxes, emails, voice mails, text messages, video mail and meet with bosses, mentors, and co-workers as they live out this project-based experience. Through the experience the learner will go on virtual field trips and meet life scientists, engineers and technologists while seeing and hearing first-hand the excitement of being involved in biotechnology.
Tools for All Trades
As a subplot in this innovative course, the students are engaged with real world technical skills taught within a series of embedded self-directed, self-paced training modules on lab safety, lab equipment, units, conversion, solutions, measuring techniques, protocols, PCR, and bio-informatics. All of this is delivered and facilitated easily as an interactive software simulation that is engaging, relevant and makes all the learning of math, language, science, and soft skills contextual.
At the heart of the course is the project the students are given. As part of the story line, the students are asked to research and create a multimedia presentation to be used to educate the general public in GMO technology. The history, the promise, benefits and some of the controversy that surrounds this important technology are all part of the learning. As part of the project the students are immersed in the design/critical thinking process.
This project was developed in partnership with WIRED One KC, Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute and Johnson County Community College.
This innovative approach to education is available for deployment to any WIRED region. As a member of a WIRED region you have the opportunity to have this course customized to highlight your WIRED region’s life science and biotech industry. Customization will incorporate your WIRED specific industries, growth and employment needs and can use your own local research facilities, companies regional staff as the experts in this career simulation. Customization is inexpensive since the original WIRED grant paid for the majority of all the development.
If you are interested in deploying this innovative courses as an on-line learning activity in your region then please contact our development team at I Support Learning and ask for our lead developer Steve Waddell at 877-828-1216.
If you would like to watch the recorded webinar of the November 5, 2009 Presentation made by Brad Wiggins, Dr. Keith Gary and Steve Waddell to the Bioscience Community of Practice click on the link below.
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