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Top 5 Challengesfor Putting Science Labs Online for DE

Cleo MagnusonLee Ann Gillen

Instructional DesignersDELTA

North Carolina State University

ELI 2013Denver, Colorado

February 6, 2013

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Objectives

• Identify five challenges unique to an online science

lab course

• Describe various problem-solving strategies for use in

a science online lab course.• Recognize typical problems encountered in an online

lab course, and determine possible solutions for

each.

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Activity: Think About …  –

Think about the science labs that you have worked with,taken or taught … what would that lab look like online? 

Crop Sciences

Botany

Physics

Physiology

Entomology

Animal ScienceAnatomy

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Learning Outcomes Drive Solutions

• What does the instructor want the student to be able

to do after completing the lab?

Bloom’s Cognitive (Old )  Bloom’s Cognitive (New) 

Simpson’s Psychomotor 

Taxonomies

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Top 5 Challenges with Online Labs

1. Work independently or in a group to submit results

remotely, have discussions and share activities

2. View macroscopic and microscopic materials.

3. Visualize physiological / chemical / physicalprocesses.

4. Hands-on experiences

5. Observe demonstrations / procedures or participatein field trips.

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Work independently

• Video instruction on comparative anatomy• Video self-quizzes on the skeletons

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Work independently

• Use concept map (ANS 220)

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Work independently•

Flash cards: audio, video, text (capture audio)• Games created using StudyMate (Respondus),

Hot Potatoes (Half Baked Software)

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Work independently

• LiveScribe – show problem solving, review• WebAssign – homework problems with

feedback

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Discuss, share and submit results

• Series of physics experiments created as

interactive simulations / enter own results /

submit

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Discuss, share and submit results

• Lab report - Moodle quiz• Lab report template - Google Doc

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View “macroscopic” materials 

• Video of lab specimens in Flash Player

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 View “macroscopic” materials

• Record narrated anatomy lesson

Bull testicle anatomy Sow uterus anatomy

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View “macroscopic” materials

• Horse of a different color (Wizard of Oz)

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View “macroscopic” materials 

• Camtasia Lecture

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View “microscopic” materials 

•Virtual Viewer 

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Activity: A Self-Check Quiz Experience

•Video quiz – macroscopic development

(ANS 206 example)

• Power Point Quizzes:

 – microscopic development

content 

 – microscopic development 

(ANS 220 follicle anatomy quiz)

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Visualize physiological processes

•Secondary Growth Animation 

Secondary Growth Animation

(without narration)Used in Camtasia with Narrated Presentation

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Visualize physiological processes

• Textbook publisheranimation (McGraw Hill)

• MERLOT

• Open Learning Initiative

Production of Hydrochloric Acid in the Stomach 

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Visualize physiological processes

• Estrous Cycle Animation (in-house)

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Visualize physiological processes

•Lab video: speeding up the timeline

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 “Hands-on” Lab Experiences 

• Create your own “Lab-in-a-box” &mail out 

• Lab activities using available materials (grocery

store)

• Commercial:

 – LabPaq.com (Hands-On Labs, Inc.)

 – esciencelabs.com

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 “Hands-on” Lab Experiences 

• Life Cycle Tool (in-house)

 – Video: Build a Langstroth bee box

 – Best Practices

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 “Hands-on” Lab Experiences 

• Vetted Mentors

 – Professional Assn.

 – Community Colleges

 – Coop. Extension

Image Source: Wikimedia Commons 

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“Hands-on” Lab Experiences 

• Series of experimentscreated as interactive

simulations that

student controls(instructor

developed)

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“Hands-on” Lab Experiences 

•Froguts (www.froguts.com)

• Perform “live” dissection of fetal pig

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Observe demonstrations / procedures

or participate in field trips.

• Virtual video tour of the NCSU Herbarium 

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Observe demonstrations / procedures

or participate in field trips.

• Video solutions

• Flash Quizzes

•

Discussion forum

In estrus? Where on the scale?

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Observe demonstrations / procedures

or participate in field trips.

• Shoot video of live birth (pig farrowing) with

narration + animation – See What You Feel 

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Activity: Survey

• Survey http://tinyurl.com/online-labs-survey 

1. What is your role? (faculty, ID, K-12, other)

2. How many DE courses have you designed or taught?3. Do you teach or design online lab science courses?

4. Identify the level of online lab science courses you

design or teach. (Intro, Intermediate, Advanced)

5. What are some of the challenges you experienced?

6. What are some of the solutions you found?

7. Comments…. 

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Summary

• Work independently or in a group anddiscuss/share /submit results remotely.

• View macroscopic and microscopic materials.

• Visualize physiological / chemical / physical

processes.

• Hands-on experiences.

• Observe demonstrations / procedures or

participate in virtual field trips.

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Thank You!

Questions?

Please fill out the evaluation form for this session: eitherpaper or online.

We would appreciate it! ;)

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How do you know it works?

• Several courses obtained student feedback on

modules & labs

• Faculty (peer) review

• Research Study/Publications

• Survey http://tinyurl.com/7a75aod 

•

Gertrude Cox Innovative Teaching withTechnology Award

• Best practices

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Physics Education Technology: The University of Colorado, Boulder, has

an excellent simulation lab to review.

CASPIE: The Center for Authentic Science Practice in Education forwomen and minorities retention.

STaRBURSTT: Youngstown State University Department of Chemistry.

NMR Collaborative Training Partnership: is a National Science

Foundation grant partnership for two and four year institutions using

the Fourere Transform Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer.

Second life operating room.http://www.educause.edu/EQ/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/Vi

rtualWorldLearningSpacesDeve/163851