In 2005, administration of these awards was transferred to the Academic Technologies Advisory Committee (ATAC).
Recipient |
Topic |
Department |
|
2003
Eric Dean |
Digital
Image Library
The Digital Image Library is a web-based instructional support
application reaching thousands of University of Iowa students each year by
providing review images for studio art, art history and humanities
courses. The Digital Image Library
went online in October 2002 and has already received 2.2 million requests for
images from UI students. |
School of Art & Art History |
|
2002
Geb Thomas,
Gregory Gerling,
Alicia Weissman,
Edwin Dove |
Dynamic
Simulator for Clinical Breast Examination Training
This
dynamically-controlled, silicone breast model is designed to train doctor's
clinical breast examination skills by simulation of up to fifteen cancerous
tumors in independent locations at controllable hardness levels. Feedback and
dynamic re-configuration features allow trainees a variety of scenarios to
fine-tune their palpation and tactile discrimination skills in distinguishing
between the presence and absence of tumors. |
Mechanical
& Industrial Engineering, Family Medicine, Biomedical Engineering |
|
2001
Jeff Porter |
Multimedia Writing:
Radio Essays Project
Radio Essays
teaches students to write nonfiction for web broadcast. Using audio
production tools, students produce their own voiceovers, record interviews,
capture nonverbal sounds and music, and integrate these various audio-based
media with spoken texts. The project showcases stories about Iowa for a national audience. |
English |
|
2001 Runner-up
Jerald Moon,
Marilyn Dispensa, Jim Duncan |
The Bones of the
Skull: A 3-D Learning Tool
This multimedia
educational software is designed to help beginning anatomy students learn the
bones and important features of the human skull. Interactive 3-D models allow
the student to rotate and view the skull and its bones from various
perspectives. An interactive textbook contains embedded activities to
encourage mastery of the content. |
Speech Pathology & Audiology, ITS Academic Technologies, Hardin Library for
the Health Sciences |
|
2001 Runner-up
Michael Peterson,
Scott Elliot |
Multimedia Computer
Applications to Teach and Assess Skills in Clinical Medicine
To address the
challenges of adequate clinical material and assuring clinical competence
among clinical trainees, we have developed two computer-based instructional
and testing tools. The first incorporates, relevant multimedia into clinical
problem-solving formats, and the second is used with simulated patients to
expand training in clinical reasoning and patient management. |
Internal Medicine |
|
2000
Joyce Berg &
Forest Nelson |
The Iowa Electronic Market: Using
Computerized Markets to Teach Social Science and Business
The Iowa
Electronic Market (IEM) allows students to trade on a real-time, real world
futures market and to see how their actions and larger societal events have
an impact on market outcomes. In placing the IEM on the internet, Professors
Berg and Nelson's efforts were able to greatly enhance the data gathering
capabilities of the IEM and to broad public access to this tool for
educational purposes. The variety of subject matter on which the IEM can
focus, including election outcomes and movie revues, can appeal to the
interests of a broad range of students. |
Accounting &
Economics
|
|
1999
Diane Davis |
The Electracy Initiative
Rather than
simply translating a previously offered course into an electronic or
web-based version of the same, Professor Davis has her students both learning
the means to communicate in various virtual environments and questioning the
effects of the increased role of cyberspace in society. These issues are then
filtered directly into student projects revolving around an on-line
publication and a "virtual university." The project demonstrates
the creative use of existing technologies and an impressive integration of a
collection of electronic activities. |
Rhetoric |
|
1998
Robert Mutel |
Iowa Robotic Observatory
"The Iowa
Observatory consists of an Automated Telescope Facility (located on campus in
Iowa
City) and a fully robotic telescope in Southern Arizona operated over the Web. The facility
is used by more than 700 University of Iowa students each year and by over
650 additional users world-wide." The facility makes it possible for
non-majors in a GER course to do original research in teams of two or three. |
Physics & Astronomy |