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
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.
“大流行结束后，我肯定仍将利用实验室作为研究前或校园后的后训练练习，” RMIT大学科学学院细胞生物学和毒理学副教授Wlodkowic说。
“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,
大学科克大学
大流行后，Amber Kool和Therese Uniacke-Lowe将继续与Labster一起教书。Uniacke-Lowe说：“ Labster不是'而不是' - 我很强调这一点。杂化后，我们将其用于现场和在线学习。”库尔说：“这是工具箱中的另一种工具，可以帮助学生理解。”
用实验室加强面对面的学习
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.
“您可以在虚拟实验室中将其介绍给他们，仔细阅读，然后在您进入面对面的实验室后加强它。现在，我们真的可以专注于‘您是否正确地获得了该技能吗？您是否做了我们需要补救的事情？’那是他们获得练习和技能的地方。好的，现在让我们开始潜入“你为什么这样做？”
库尔说：“教职员工变得更像是一名教练，他们成为指导的指导，对学习的责任感回到了学生身上。”
Give Your Students Time to Reflect
传统的实验室体验是限时的。大多数实验室需要适合3小时的大学老虎机或高中45-50分钟的课程。相比之下，学生可以在不到一个小时（通常在10-20分钟内）完成大多数Labster模拟。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的机会，并一起使用课堂时间，作为学生与您互动的机会。在同步期间，您可以加强或补救学生对他们可能正在挣扎的问题。
Help Students Visualize Science & Overcome Knowledge Gaps
每个学生都以一系列的知识差距开始了新课程，这些差距在整个学术生涯中积累了。每位讲师都开始一门新课程，不知道学生的差距。Labster有助于填补并弥合这些空白。
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.
Amber Kool收集了有关Labster如何影响学生的参与和学习的数据。她说：“我可以从学生流逝的直接报价中给您，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丰富。”
给自己更多有关学生表现的数据
讲师能够通过LMS内的Labster老师仪表板查看学生的成绩。使用仪表板中的数据，讲师看到错过了哪些问题，进行了多少尝试以及学生的比赛时间。Labster的反馈为讲师提供了一个机会，可以加强学生正在挣扎的领域。
给学生即时反馈
提供反馈可以改善学习成果。学生立即知道他们是否正确回答了嵌入式测验问题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.
让您的学生从错误中学习（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.
“我们为Kjeldahl技术使用Labster模拟。这是一种非常讨厌的技术，我们不让学生动手实践。“因此，我们将向他们展示仪器，但是他们实际上将学习如何使用模拟有效地使用它。”
Labster的目的是，当您的学生站在物理实验室的板凳上并捡起移液器时，他们就会理解要求要做什么以及为什么实验很重要，并且也意识到风险和安全实践。
Make Sure Your Labs Are Accessible and Inclusive
Labster可以帮助为现场讲师提供包容性且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.
