Conversion Immersion: Adapting Labs for Online or On-Campus

 

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2015, Volume 36

Gillian Gass & Jennifer Van Dommelen

Abstract

While on-campus and online domains both offer opportunities for teaching and learning biology, they have unique and shared challenges with respect to involving students in practical work. The subject knowledge, reasoning, and practical skills that we want students to practice, however, remain constant. A high-quality lab is usually one that captures these elements; if we have such a lab in place in one environment, it makes sense to start from there when building a lab for use in the other environment. In this workshop, we worked with participants to help them convert their labs for use in a new domain.

Keywords:  online, virtual lab, conversion, web-based, on-campus

University of Oregon (2014)