ELE-BioLabs

Description

This project designed and built an online resource, ELE-BioLabs, to enhance teaching and learning in the undergraduate laboratory, based on the highly successful eBioLabs project at the University of Bristol. Each practical contains sections for pre-lab information, techniques, and post-lab data collection and analysis, with particular emphasis placed on preparation for lab sessions in order to improve the learning experience in the lab. The system sits with the new University of Exeter VLE and provide a one-stop-online-shop for supporting teaching and learning in the School of Biosciences.

e-resources developed as part of the project

The grant holder owns the intellectual property rights, including copyright, of the original material generated by this project. However, the grant holder has granted the UK Centre for Bioscience a non-exclusive, indefinite, fully paid up, royalty free license to freely distribute to UK Higher Education and Further Education any original teaching material generated by the grant holder under this letter of agreement. For avoidance of doubt, end-users shall be entitled to freely adapt and use original teaching material for educational purposes. On this basis the e-resources are available to download

e-resources collection

1. Bacterial enumeration – practical video
2. Air contamination of plates – practical video
3. Hand contamination of plates – practical video
4. Transformation of bacteria – practical video
5. Lysis of bacteria by Phage – practical video
6. Hanging drop motility assay – practical video
7. Transport across a membrane – simulation
8. Tetrad analysis in Sordaria fimicola – practical video
9. Testing of multiple genes and linkages in Aspergillus nidulans – practical video
10. Complementation testing; replica plating of yeast strains – practical video
11. Mitosis in onion roots – practical video
12. Ames test – practical video
13. Karyotyping exercise
14. Playing card drawing for quantitative genetics exercises - simulation
15. Dice rolling for quantitative genetics exercises – simulation
16. Plant diversity/physiology image galleries – galleries of plants showing different physiological features with information about habitats and adaptations
17. Plant diversity/physiology glossary – glossary of useful terms in plant diversity and physiology
18. Leaf abscission – practical video
19. Get to know your specimen; Coleus blumei and Neris diversicolor – videos and detailed structural information about key species studied in L1 practicals
20. Effect of antibiotics – practical video
21. Effect of disinfectants (alcohol and virkon) – practical videos
22. Effect of heat on bacteria – practical video
23. Methods for counting bacteria; pour plate, spread plate, Miles and Misra – practical videos
24. RSPB bird gallery – image gallery of birds for species identification during ecology practicals
25. Species classification quiz – zoology quiz for understanding classification and nomenclature
26. Species identification quiz
27. Guides to statistical tests in Excel; ANOVA and t-tests – walk through simulation of process using various versions of Excel
28. Capture-mark-recapture simulation – simulation of method to estimate population size in the wild.
29. Spot plating – practical video
30. How to count colonies – animation
31. How to prepare agar and broth – practical video
32. How to pour agar plates
33. How to use Web of Science at Exeter – walk through simulation
34. Preventing contamination in the laboratory; good lab practice, using a Bunsen burner, using a laminar flow cabinet, the importance of a control – animations and practical videos
35. How to prepare antibiotics – practical video
36. What goes in which bin? – quiz to promote good lab practice

Links

Final Report

e-learning information and case studies.

Open Educational Resources (OER) - an Interactive Laboratory and Fieldwork Manual for the Biosciences.

UK Centre for Bioscience pages on Practical work and fieldwork.