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Putting Science Labs Online for DE: Five Case Studies

Putting Science Labs Online for DE: Five Case Studies. Lee Ann Gillen Cleo Magnuson Instructional Designers DELTA North Carolina State University United States. Objectives. Identify some of the challenges unique to an online lab course

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Putting Science Labs Online for DE: Five Case Studies

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  1. Putting Science Labs Online for DE: Five Case Studies Lee Ann Gillen Cleo Magnuson Instructional DesignersDELTANorth Carolina State UniversityUnited States Lily Conference on College & University Teaching

  2. Objectives • Identify some of the challenges unique to an online 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. • Examine various case studies and recognize where and how problem solving strategies were applied.

  3. Challenges Audience Response What are some of the challenges when designing an online lab course?

  4. Challenges with Online Labs Work independently not in a group. Discuss/share /submit results remotely. Need hands-on experiences. Need to view macroscopic and microscopic materials. Need to visualize physiological / chemical / physical processes. Need to observe demonstrations / procedures or participate in field trips.

  5. Learning Outcomes Drive Solutions Taxonomies Bloom’s Cognitive (Old ) Bloom’s Cognitive (New) Simpson’s Pyschomotor • What does the instructor want the student to be able to do after completing the lab?

  6. Case Study: PB 200 Plant Life • Challenges for students: • Need to observe demonstrations / procedures or participate in a field trip • Need hands-on experiences • Need to visualize physiological processes (how plants gain girth) • Need to view macroscopic and microscopic processes.

  7. PB 200 Case Study • Challenges for students: • Participate in Field trip - visit the NCSU Herbarium • Solution: • Virtual video tour of the NCSU Herbarium

  8. PB 200 Case Study • Challenges for students: • Need hands-on experiences. • Solutions: • Mail out “create your own”: Lab-in-a-box • Lab activities designed using available materials (grocery store) • Commercial LabPaq.com

  9. PB 200 Case Study Secondary Growth Animation(without narration) Used in Camtasia with Narrated Presentation • Challenge: • Need to visualize physiological processes • Solution: • Secondary Growth Animation

  10. PB 200 Case Study Challenge: • Students need to view macroscopic and microscopic materials. Solution: • Video of lab specimens in Flash Player (macro) • Virtual Viewer (micro)

  11. PB 200 Case Study • Challenge: • Need to view macroscopic materials • Solution: • Video of lab specimens in Flash Player

  12. PB 200 Case Study • Challenge: • Need to view microscopic materials • Solution: • Virtual Viewer

  13. Case Study: ENT 410Honey Bee Biology and Management • Challenges for students: • Need hands-on experiences. • Need to observe demonstrations / procedures or participate

  14. Case Study: ENT 401 • Challenge: • Need to observe demonstrations / procedures • Solution: • Life Cycle Tool

  15. Case Study: ENT 401 • Challenge: • Need hands-on experiences • Solution • Watch video: Best Practices • Participate in hands- on lab with vetted mentor or instructor

  16. ENT 401 • Challenge: • Need hands-on experiences • Solution • Activity: Self-checks

  17. Case Study: ENT 401 Image Source: Wikimedia Commons • Challenge: • Need hands-on experiences • Need to observe demonstrations / procedures • Solution: • Vetted Mentors

  18. Case Study: ANS 220 & 221Reproduction & Lactation in Domestic Animals • Challenges for students: • View macroscopic and microscopic materials • Visualize physiological processes • View demonstrations / participate in field trips

  19. Case Study: ANS 220 Bull testicle anatomy Sow uterus anatomy • Challenge: • Identify macroscopic materials -label anatomy of reproductive organs • Solution: • Record narrated anatomy lesson

  20. Case Study: ANS 220 • Challenge: • Need to visualize physiological processes (estrous cycle) • Solution: • Textbook publisher animation (McGraw Hill) • Estrous cycle multimedia project (in production)

  21. Case Study: ANS 220 In estrus? Where on the scale? • Challenge: demonstrations • Need to observe procedures (reproductive) and demonstrations (animal behaviors). • Solution: • Video solutions • Flash Quizzes • Discussion forum

  22. Case Study: ANS 220 • Challenge: • Need to observe procedures (birth of pigs) • Solution: • Shoot video of live birth (pig farrowing) with narration • Poster – See What You Feel

  23. Case Study: PY 211/212 College Physics I and II • Challenges for students: • Need hands-on experiences • Discuss/share/submit results remotely • Work independently, not in a group

  24. Case Study: PY 211/212 • Challenge: • Need hands-on experience • Solution: • Series of experiments created as interactive simulations that student controls

  25. Case Study: PY 211/212 • Challenge: • Discuss/share/submit results remotely • Solution: • Series of experiments created as interactive simulations / enter own results / submit

  26. Case Study: PY 211/212 • Challenge: • Discuss/share/submit results remotely • Solution: • Series of experiments created as interactive simulations / enter own results / submit

  27. Case Study: PY 211/212 • Challenge: • Discuss/share/submit results remotely • Solution: • Lab report presented as a quiz

  28. Case Study: PY 211/212 • Challenge: • Work independently, not in a group • Solution: • WebAssign problems with feedback

  29. Case Study: ANS 206Anatomy of Domestic Animals • Challenges for students: • Need hands-on experience - dissection • Need to view macroscopic and microscopic materials • Visualize physiological processes

  30. Case Study: ANS 206 • Challenge: • Hands-on experience - perform live dissection of fetal pig • Solution: • Froguts (dissect.froguts.com)

  31. Case Study: ANS 206 • Challenge: • View macroscopic materials - Identify and compare skeletal differences between anatomy of horses, dogs, cats, sheep, cows • Solution: • Video tour of the various skeletons - horses, dogs, cats, sheep, cows

  32. Case Study: ANS 206 • Challenge: • View macroscopic materials - major muscle groups • Solution: • Horse of a different color (Wizard of Oz)

  33. Case Study: ANS 206 • Challenge: • Work independently, not in a group • Solution: • Video self-quizzes on the skeletons

  34. Case Study: ANS 206 • Challenge: • Visualize physiological processes – glucose cycle • Solution: • “Krispy Kreme” Lab video

  35. Case Study: ANS 206 • Challenge: • Visualize physiological processes • Solution: • View videos / send blood typing kits

  36. Case Study: ANS 206 • Challenge: • Visualize physiological processes - Osmosis and diffusion • Solution: • Lab video: speeding up the timeline

  37. Summary • Work independently not in a group. • Self-check quizzes • WebAssign • Mentors • Need to discuss/share /submit results remotely. • Lab reports – use quiz tool or Google docs • Data collection / sharing – Google docs • Need hands-on experiences. • Lab-in-a-Box – Create your own or commercial • Life Cycle Tool • Froguts - dissection

  38. Summary • Need to view macroscopic and microscopic materials. • Videos of comparative anatomy • Virtual viewer (microscopic) • Need to visualize physiological / chemical / physical processes. • Secondary growth animation -- Krispy Kreme lab • Estrous cycle animation -- Osmosis & diffusion • Need to observe demonstrations / procedures or participate in field trips. • Live pig births (narrated) -- Vetted mentors • Animal behaviors / reproductive techniques • Field trip to NCSU Herbarium -- Life Cycle tool

  39. Thank you! Survey:http://tinyurl.com/7a75aod Questions?

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