It’s been one year since schools closed. We are hopeful classes will be back on-campus soon. Educators are asking: How will face-to-face learning look when you return? Will your teaching go back to pre-pandemic normal? Or did the online experience forever change your teaching methods and tools?
We recently surveyed over 900 educators in higher ed and high school to gain their insight about post-pandemic teaching with Labster. To find out what your peers think about their post-COVID “new normal” and their plans for teaching with virtual labs, downloadour survey results.Download Survey Results
继续做什么工作
Shifting to online teaching virtually overnight was painful. But you’re not alone if you’ve discovered that some virtual education technologies enhance the learning experience for your students.
Dr. Donald Wlodkowic originally found Labster during the pandemic lockdown when searching for a replacement for wet-lab experiments. He later discovered that his students were engaged and learning with Labster and that he wanted to keep using it as a course supplement.
“当大流行结束时，我肯定仍将使用LABSTER作为实际培训前的学习前或校园实际培训练习，”雷迪茨大学科学学院的细胞生物学和毒理学副教授Wlodowicic表示。
“In on-campus practicals, we have limited resources, limited ability to teach modern techniques because the cost would be too prohibitive,” Wlodkowic said. “With Labster, I can teach even first- and second-year students techniques such as flow cytometry, ELISA, and immunoblotting. Labster also has theory components that mesh together nicely with my lectures on cell biology or biochemistry.”
- Amber Kool,
Arizona College of Nursing
- Therese Uiacke-Lowe,
大学大学黄柏
琥珀kool和therese uniacke-lowe将继续在大流行后与Labster教学。“Labster不是'而不是'而不是' - 我很强调这一点。后Covid，我们将在现场和在线学习中使用它，”Uniacke-Lowe说。“这是你工具箱中的一个工具，以帮助学生理解，”Kool说。
用Labster加强亲自学习
Labster can help support the concepts and techniques you’re teaching. Amber Kool, Director of Curriculum and Instruction at Arizona College of Nursing, turned to Labster when searching for a wet-lab alternative during the pandemic. After a year, she realized that Labster is “not a replacement for anything,” she said. “This is one more tool in your toolbox to help students understand.”
“If we're going back to experiential learning and exposing them to an idea, then reinforcing that idea in another manner is just going to integrate it into their knowledge bank,” said Kool. She described how she plans to combine virtual labs and other digital learning tools with in-person teaching. “So maybe we do a virtual lab, have an assigned reading, followed by a video, followed by their faculty member clarifying a concept, ” she said.
Do More Coaching and Mentoring
When your students start by playing a simulation first, you can begin synchronous class time with investigative questions that challenge them to explore and apply what they didn’t understand.
“您可以将其介绍在虚拟实验室中，返回其，然后在员工的实验室中加强它。现在我们真的可以专注于“你有技能吗？你做了一些我们需要修复的事情吗？“这就是他们得到了做法和技能的地方。好的，现在让我们开始潜入'你为什么这么做？'“
“教师成员变得更多的教练，他们成为更多的指导，学习的问责制回到学生上，”库尔说。
Give Your Students Time to Reflect
传统的实验室经验是有时限制的。大多数实验室需要适应3小时的大学老虎机或高中45-50分钟的课堂。相比之下，学生可以在不到一小时内完成大多数Labster模拟（通常在10-20分钟内）。华体会赞助ac米兰
选择翻转的课堂方法，您可以使用Labster作为学生与实验互动并使用您的课堂时间作为学生与您联系的机会的机会。在同步时间期间，您可以加强或修复您的学生仍有疑问或他们可能会努力的内容。
Help Students Visualize Science & Overcome Knowledge Gaps
每个学生都开始了一个新的课程，其中一系列的知识差距在他们的学科职业生涯中积累。每个教练都开始了一个新的课程，不知道学生有哪些差距。Labster有助于填补并弥合那些差距。
Labster visualizations help students break through threshold concepts and have their own “lightbulb moments.” Labster helps students visualize very abstract concepts in an interactive 3D environment. Animations show hard-to-see and invisible phenomena in a way that clarifies and explains what’s going on.
琥珀kool收集了关于Labster如何影响她学生的参与和学习的数据。“我可以从学生的潮流中发出直接的报价，说他们喜欢虚拟实验室，他们喜欢互动，他们喜欢他们的信息，”她说。
给自己更多关于学生表演的数据
教师能够通过他们的LMS内的Labster老师仪表板查看学生的结果。使用仪表板中的数据，教师看到了哪些问题，进行了多少次尝试，以及学生扮演的时间。Labster的反馈为教师强化了学生正在努力的地区创造了机会。
让学生即时反馈
提供反馈改善了学习结果。学生立即知道他们是否正确回答了一个嵌入式测验问题in Labster because it does automatic grading. They can re-attempt the question after reviewing the Labster theory pages or other course materials. Alternatively, students can reach out directly to you for more help.
让你的学生从他们的错误中吸取教训（安全）
Before they are ready to try it in a real laboratory, students can get their hands onto equipment and into experiments in the safety of Labster’s virtual lab.
“我们对KJELDAHL技术使用LABSTER仿真。这是一个非常令人讨厌的技术，我们不会让学生做到实践，“大学大学大学软木塞的食品和营养科学学院博士博士说。“所以我们会向他们展示仪器，但他们实际上将学习如何使用模拟有效地使用它。”
Labster的目标是，当您的学生站在物理实验室长凳上并拿起一个吸移管时，他们了解他们被要求做的事情以及为什么实验很重要，也意识到风险和安全实践。
Make Sure Your Labs Are Accessible and Inclusive
Labster可以帮助提供现场教练包容性和可访问的实验室经验for all students, including students with disabilities who often face obstacles when working in a physical lab. Many of our simulations are fully playable using keyboard navigation and screen-reader, and fully accessible for students with color blindness. You can view our growing list of WCAG 2.0 Level AA accessible virtual labs at//m.scraonline.com/accessibility/.
最后的想法
Many instructors tell us that using Labster in combination with in-person teaching methods produces the best student learning outcomes.Peer-reviewed researchsupports their experiences, finding that students withbotha teacher and Labster score 101% higher on assessments. If you’d like to find out more about how your peers are integrating Labster with in-person learning as we transition back to teaching face-to-face, go ahead andget in touch with us.
