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Teaching Labs Remotely with Real Lab Instruments

Teaching Labs Remotely with Real Lab Instruments. Monday , September 16, 2013 http://wiche.edu/nanslo. Remote Science is All Around Us. Little Hercules 2000 (13 years). Hubble Telescope 1990 (23 years). Curiosity Rover 2011 (2 Year). Image credit: NASA and .

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Teaching Labs Remotely with Real Lab Instruments

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  1. Teaching Labs Remotelywith Real Lab Instruments Monday, September 16, 2013 http://wiche.edu/nanslo

  2. Remote Science is All Around Us Little Hercules2000 (13 years) Hubble Telescope1990 (23 years) Curiosity Rover2011 (2 Year) Image credit: NASA and

  3. This Confocal Microscope is Run by a Computer

  4. What is the Difference Between1m and 1000 km?

  5. Remote Web-Based Science Lab (RWSL)—How it works RWSL Lab Equipment Video Observation Physical Manipulation/ Instrument Control Observation Manipulation Internet (Students) Communications Data Acquisition Data 5

  6. Remote Web-Based Science Lab (RWSL)—How it works RWSL Lab Equipment Cameras/JAVA/HTML Video Observation Physical Manipulation/ Instrument Control Observation Manipulation Internet (Students) Communications Data Acquisition Data 6 VOIP software Lab Technicians LabVIEW

  7. Why do we need the RWSL? • Online Science Courses are increasingly popular in the U.S.* • Average of 3% growth per year from 2002 through 2011 • Online Enrollments increased from 1.6 million to 6.7 million • Science students represented 32% of all online enrollments in 2011 (up from 10% in 2002) *Source - I. Elaine Allen, PhD and Jeff Seaman, PhD, "Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States", Babson Survey Research Group and Quahog Research Group, LLC., January, 2013 • No agreed-upon standard for teaching labs online • Many faculty think it isn’t possible to do so • Internet is littered with failed/failing attempts • We owe it to our students to offer authentic online science experiences

  8. Whom do we Currently Serve? • Colorado Community College System • Demographics • The average age of our students is 28. • 30 percent of our students are minorities. • CCCS serves 52 percent of all minority undergraduate students in higher education in Colorado. • 56 percent of our students are female. • 67% of our students are part time. • Career and Economic Improvement • Students see an average increase in wages of 17% after completing a CCCS degrees/certificate program • Forty-eight percent of the degrees/certificates awarded by CCCS are in the health sciences. • Health Sciences students had a 97 percent increase in earnings.

  9. Future Plans • Expansion of the Denver and North Island College facilities • Improving procedures based on feedback • Standardization/Modularization of LabVIEW code • Additional equipment and lab procedures (2nd semester) • Access through Citrix – allows multiple platform access • Improved Scheduler - connection protocol/API • Additional Laboratory Facility • Great Falls College, MSU • Networking Facilities Together • Transactional scheduling system • Serving other School Systems in other States/Countries

  10. Existing Experiments and Equipment • Physics • Air Track • Motion Studies (acceleration, conservation of momentum, etc.) • Helmholtz coil • Determine charge/mass ratio of an electron • Chemistry • Spectrophotometer • Absorbance and Emission studies • Biology • Microscope • Introduction to Microscopy (characterization) • Mitosis/Meiosis

  11. New Equipment and Experiments • Chemistry • Gas Chromatograph • Chemical Identification • Acid/Base Titration • Biology • Lots of microscopy (including fluorescence!) • pH and buffering solutions • Spectrometry flow cells • Enzymatic activity, membrane osmosis

  12. Microscope Comparison Home Lab Kit ~$125 NANSLO Lab ~$58,000

  13. The Microscope INTERFACE

  14. Student View 1

  15. Student View 2

  16. Student View 3

  17. Student View 4

  18. What does this do for our students? • Gives them access to real state-of-the-art lab equipment • Lets them engage in authentic instrumental experimentation. • Allows them to collaborate with classmates • Prepares them for a future of online science

  19. Questions? Dan Branan daniel.branan@cccs.edu PJ Bennett paul.bennett@cccs.edu http://wiche.edu/nanslo

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