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Muscle Control
Record number: 4056
Category: Physiology
Type: CD-ROM
Description: Muscle Control is an interactive multimedia program that teaches students contraction behaviour of a muscle by stimulating the muscle with a series of electrical stimuli. The student conducts the experiment himself, interprets the data, draws conclusions and tries to explain them. In addition, the information given in this program teaches the student to learn to classify information when writing a report. The student can use both skeletal and cardiac muscle to find out how muscular strength is controlled, and which physiological and morphological features are involved. The program aims to: Teach the student the regulation of muscle control and how to write a report. The program includes four scientific structures: Introduction: how to define research questions; Materials & methods: Including surgery; Results: The data are obtained by experimentation and then analysed ; Discussion: Which morphological and physiological features are used to explain the results. This program includes video images with audio and there are hyperlinks to background information. At the end of the program, students are automatically referred to a web-based questionnaire about the usefulness of the program. The use of high-quality video during surgery and experiments, together with the scientific structure, makes the program a realistic representation and a good replacement of experiments on frogs.
Comments & References: Suitable for undergraduate students (first year students) studying Biomedical Sciences. System requirements, Hardware: Pentium II, 450 processor or equivalent, 64 MB or more of RAM, 8 MB or higher video card, 16 bit sound card, 800 X 600 X 24 bits resolution, High colour display. Software: Quicktime 4 (or newer), Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000, Newest version of Direct X software component recommended. For more information on this product, please contact Dr. Anne de Ruiter at a.j.h.de.ruiter@rug.nl. A demo is available from him. Another description of this product is available from EURCA's (European Resource Centre for Alternatives in Higher Education) alternatives database (http://www.eurca.org/list_res.asp?CatID=All).
Computer type: IBM Version: 2001-Dir1.4. New versions: 2002-Dir1.5 and a 2002-HTML 1.1 version is under construction.
Author: Solita van Duin
Supplier:
  University of Groningen
Department of Animal Physiology, P.O.Box 14, 9750 AA Haren, The Netherlands
Tel: Int-31-50-363-2340
Fax: Int-31-50-363-2331
A.J.H. de Ruiter@rug.nl
http://www.biol.rug.nl/neuro
This page was updated 13.03.2006.
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