Science Labs for Online Science Courses

June 23rd, 2009

Examples from faculty teaching online science laboratory courses.

Universities using lab kits and other methods to offer lab sciences at a distance, University of Arkansas Distance Education Task Force Blog

Free online physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math simulations, PhET project at the University of Colorado.

Home Dissection Kits and More, Inside Higher Ed

Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger Web Based Virtual Experiment, Department Process & Chemical Engineering, University College Cork

Physics simulations with Java, MyPhysicsLab You’ll see them animating in real time, and be able to interact with them by dragging objects or changing parameters like gravity.

No Test Tubes? Questions Arise On Virtual High School Science, New York Times

Interactive, online simulations for the life science laboratory or for earth science field studies, Sciencecourseware

Science Labs: Virtual Versus Simulated, THE Journal

Virtual Lab — Vivid Animations Help Students With Science Experiments, Science Daily

Science Labs of the Future, Converge

Biology Online Labs, McGraw-Hill Higher Education

In 2002, SDCCD Miramar College faculty developed and pilot tested an online biology laboratory course for non-science major students, Innovation Express

Leave a Reply