Online Degrees have not yet caught on for most science courses that require laboratory sessions, as many educators think they can’t teach the lab sessions outside of the classroom.
This is a list of articles I have found, explaining teachers and professors how they can teach chemistry laboratory courses online.
- Kitchen Chemistry Provides Distance Learners With Quality Laboratory Experiences
- MIT OpenCourseWare SP.287 Kitchen Chemistry
- Chemistry Experiments & Demonstrations You Can Do at Home
- Solving The Laboratory Dilemma in Distance Learning General Chemistry
- BBC/OU Open2.net – The World Around Us – Kitchen lab
- Overview: In many ways the kitchen can be considered the chemistry laboratory of the home
- Chemistry Experiments – A to Z Home’s Cool Homeschooling
- Kitchen Chemistry
- Anytime Anywhere Chemistry Experience
- Chemistry Labs at a Distance: the Kitchen takes Centre Stage!
- Kitchen Chemistry
- Science of Cooking
- Kitchen Chemistry — Food Science — Penn State University
- How to Set Up Your Chemistry Laboratory
As a chemist (B.S. Cal Tech, Ph.D. Columbia Univ., Asst Prof Northeastern Univ., Industrial Research Scientist, Chair of Northeast Section of ACS), I can understand the issues that people have with attempting to provide good chemistry lab experience in an online course.
I have directed the development of AP-level online chemistry labs using prerecorded real experiments and blending in at-home experiments where possible. We have covered the AP Chemistry curricular requirements completely.
The resulting lab experience has been good enough to pass muster with the College Board. Curricula submitted with our labs have passed its audit and remain the sole virtual lab system to have achieved this goal.
You really can provide a great lab experience without resorting to simulations or making students show up for supervised labs in traditional laboratory facilities.
By: Harry Keller on June 23, 2009
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