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Creating Multimedia Teaching and Training Tools

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Steven B. Barlow*
Affiliation:
San Diego State University

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Teaching and training users how to operate laboratory equipment is a time-intensive practice. Many new users are students, who have generally high turnover rates; after they complete a class project or degree program, they leave the facility, In addition, users often divide their time among a variety of techniques and equipment. With episodic usage, researchers tend to forget details of instrument operation and need to be retrained. Academic core facilities must balance their productivity against the time it takes to train and retrain an ever-changing parade of users. Site-specific multimedia teaching and training resources, such as films, CDs, videos, or DVDs, if easily available in the laboratory, would enable users to refresh and retrain themselves on equipment operation.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2003

References

[1]EM-Specimen Preparation I & II (1991), Leica Instruments AG, videotapeGoogle Scholar
[2]The Principles and Practice of X-ray Microanalysis (1997) Oxford Instruments pic, CDGoogle Scholar
[3]http://microscopyisu.edu/optics/webresources/index-html with virtual light and electron microscopesGoogle Scholar
[4]The Microscopy Society of America lists resources for teaching microscopy at http://www.msa.microscopy. com/ProjectMicro/PMHomePage.htmlGoogle Scholar