YCP Professor Develops National On-line Course
Posted March 23, 1999FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
York, Pennsylvania--York College of Pennsylvania's Physical Science Professor, Dr. Lindy Harrison, wrote and organized an on-line course about Pharmaceuticals. Volunteering her own time she has developed a national website for chemistry classes around the country, titled "Pharmaceuticals, Their Discovery, Regulation and Manufacture."
The course enables students to learn the process by which drugs are discovered and how they make their way to the patient. The major activity during this course will be a role playing event in which the students will be involved with this process in detail for one drug. There are 38 schools across the United States and about 400 students that are involved.
On March 21, 1999, Dr. Harrison gave a presentation about Distance Learning Education, entitled; "Sights from the Past-Visions for the Future," in Anaheim, CA. She talked about the development of the course and made suggestions for the future of on-line courses. She hopes this will help further the potential of on-line courses. "I like helping to extend what I think are the frontiers of education because I think the frontiers are distance learning," expressed Lindy. "That pleases me."
Dr. Harrison has done research in the area of drug synthesis and psychoneuroimmunology. In addition, she carries out educational research on the development of new teaching strategies involving active learning. However, where student interests have been outside the areas of the faculty research, she has delved into other areas to support the students' experimental work. Such areas have included vitamin A and its effect on limb regeneration, lead in the drinking water of local child-related settings, and laboratory simulation of soil remediation.
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