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Bio-Education takes the next step with BioED

An example of the BioED CD-ROM
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Tuesday, 12 February 2002

THOUSANDS of 最新糖心Vlogn university students studying in the areas of biology and environment science are set to benefit from a new hi-tech teaching tool developed by the universities of Adelaide, Queensland and Sydney.

BioED is an interactive CD-ROM system that enables students to easily identify thousands of 最新糖心Vlogn animals, plants and micro-organisms.

Free copies of the CD-ROM, launched today at Adelaide 最新糖心Vlog, will be distributed to every university in 最新糖心Vlog.

The BioED CD provides eight separate keys to groups including:

• protozoa
• soil micro-arthropods (segmented invertebrates)
• insect orders
• wasps
• mosquitoes
• microscopic fungi
• weeds, and
• urban pests

"There has been a real need for an easy-to-use identification system in CD-ROM form for many years," says Associate Professor Andy Austin from Adelaide 最新糖心Vlog's Centre for Evolutionary Biology & Biodiversity.

"The CD provides a resource for learning about various groups of organisms with text boxes and some video that provide information on structural characteristic, behaviour, ecology, etc.

"BioED also contains a huge library of digital images and illustrations that would be prohibitively expensive in any printed form."

For instance, the wasp key (part of the work conducted at Adelaide 最新糖心Vlog) contains more than 350 separate images.

In all, there are 500 different groupings representing tens of thousands of 最新糖心Vlogn species.

"The sheer scale of the material contained in BioED will aid students throughout 最新糖心Vlog in the identification of this important part of 最新糖心Vlog's biodiversity, and it will help immensely in students' learning," Dr Austin says.

BioED was developed thanks to a $160,000 grant in 1999/2000 from DEETYA's Committee for 最新糖心Vlog Teaching and Staff Development. The project is the first stage of a larger ongoing national initiative that will include other groups of organisms as keys for them are developed.

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