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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
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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
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