The organizations listed below offer web-based educational resources within the Health Science Career Cluster. This list is provided as a resource for community college faculty. It is not exhaustive and inclusion does not constitute endorsement by CORD, the League for Innovation, the States Career Cluster Initiative or the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education.
Nursing Education and Technology (NEAT)
In an effort to contribute to high quality, cost-effective, graduate
level nursing education, a group of inter-institutional partners are
working together to identify common teaching and learning challenges
in distance health care education. An important goal of the project
is to create learning objects, also called Sharable Content Objects
or SCOs, and interactive case studies that are applicable across courses,
contexts, and educational levels and are designed to meet the usability
standards of the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM).
http://webcls.utmb.edu/neat/ and http://NEATproject.org
Northeast Biomanufacturing Center and Collaborative
The purpose of the center is to develop resources for the biomanufacturing
community: facilitating annual workshops, establishing sustainable
learning communities; developing educational pathways and articulation
agreements; developing and adapting curricula and instructional materials;
and providing professional development opportunities.
http://www.biomanufacturing.org/
The Geneticist-Educator Network of Alliances (GENA) Project
A National Science Foundation Math-Science Partnership Project, the GENA
Project involves a partnership of The American Society of Human Genetics
(ASHG), the Genetics Society of America (GSA), the National Science
Resources Center (NSRC) and the National Association of Biology Teachers
(NABT). The groups are building a framework for long-term collaborations
between educators and scientists and a sustainable infrastructure to
support meaningful outreach by scientists in the high school science
classroom. The Geneticist-Educator Network of Alliances (GENA) Project
provides the partnering scientific societies with tools to instruct,
facilitate, and measure the meaningful engagement of science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM) faculty members in secondary science
education. Although high school students are the intended audience,
community college science faculty may find the project’s teaching resources
on topics in genetics easily modified for the postsecondary classroom.
http://www.genednet.org/
National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science
The Center is a National Science Foundation funded resource for undergraduate
science education. Using the case study method for teaching science,
the Center offers a broad collection of cases and related teaching
materials for classroom use in the physical and life sciences.
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/case.html
TOXMAP
Interactive map from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and National
Institutes of Health depicting toxic releases and hazardous waste sites
from the EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) and the Superfund National
Priorities List (NPL).
http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov/toxmap/home/welcome.do
BEDROCK: Bioinformatics Education
A National Science Foundation-funded initiative, the Bioquest Curriculum
Consortium’s BEDROCK project efforts are aimed at integrating bioinformatics
throughout the undergraduate biology curriculum, using an inquiry-based
approach in which students explore and analyze actual data in a way
that recreates the experience of conducting research. The project website
offers teaching resources, including simulations, projects, and modeling
software.
http://bioquest.org/bedrock/index.php
Bio-Link - The ATE Resource Center in Biotechnology
The Bio-Link Advanced Technological Education program was created to
improve and expand educational programs that prepare skilled technicians
to work in the high-tech fields that drive the U.S. economy. Bio-Link
enhances and expands biotechnology education programs by providing
cutting edge professional development for instructors, by improving
curriculum, by making use of technologies and by creating a system
that promotes the sharing of information. Bio-Link offers an online
curriculum and instructional materials clearinghouse, including resources
such as career scenarios, book reviews, lab exercises.
http://www.bio-link.org/
Genetics Education Center
The University of Kansas Medical Center offers a collection of online
resources for educators interested in genetics and the human genome
project.
http://www.kumc.edu/gec/
The Biology Project
The University of Arizona offers an online interactive resource for learning
biology and related topics; most containing problem sets and tutorials.
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/site.html
Virtual Labs
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Virtual Labs Series offers fully
interactive biomedical laboratory simulations such as a bacterial identification
lab, a cardiology lab, a neurophysiology lab and a virtual ELISA (Enzyme-Linked
Immunosorbent Assay). In addition, there are numerous other resources
for teachers and students including videos of lecture series with classroom
discussion guides, animations, and text materials.
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/vlabs/
The Molecular Workbench
This sophisticated model of the interactions among atoms and molecules
was created by the Concord Consortium. Learning activities based on
the model help clarify what is happening at the atomic level and have
been used with all the sciences and engineering from middle school
through college. Over 200 learning activities have been made and placed
in a database for instructor use.
http://www.concord.org/work/software/#id3183378770
Biology Student Workbench
The Molecular Science Student Workbench is a bioinformatics resource
that provides a suite of interactive tools which draw on a host of
biology databases and allows users to compare molecular sequences using
high performance computing facilities, visualize and manipulate molecular
structures, and generate phylogenetic hypotheses. Educators will find
bioinformatics exercises they can incorporate into their teaching,
exercises that can be done on any computer with an internet connection.
http://bsw-uiuc.net/labs.php
Assessing Blood Pressure
This web-based learning object presents the proper techniques and common
errors associated with taking blood pressure. While there is audio
portion, the lesson itself must be read. Designed for new learners
in clinical and health science programs, this tutorial was developed
by medical staff from three universities with support from a commercial
health care education provider.
http://pe131-mac14.csuchico.edu/bp/bp.html
Inside Cancer
This website from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory was funded by the
National Institutes of Health and offers a multimedia guide to cancer
biology.
http://www.insidecancer.org/
The eSkeletons Project
This website from the University of Texas at Austin is devoted to a virtual
comparison of bones of humans and primates. Users can navigate through
regions of the skeleton and view all elements along with muscle and
joint formation.
http://www.eskeletons.org/
National Consortium on Health Science and Technology and Education
A national partnership of individuals and organizations with a vested
interest in health science and technology education, the Consortium’s
efforts stimulate creative and innovative leadership for ensuring a
well-prepared healthcare workforce.
http://www.nchste.org/
LifeWorks
This website, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health Office of
Science Education, allows students to explore careers in health and
medical science.
http://science.education.nih.gov/lifeworks