A Community Springs to Action to Enable Virtual Laboratory Instruction
Chip Nataro, Adam R. Johnson
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic put an abrupt end to face-to-face teaching at many colleges and universities. While numerous methods for synchronous and asynchronous teaching in lecture courses were quickly deployed, laboratory instruction presented a unique set of challenges. To develop online laboratories quickly would be a daunting task for an individual. However, contributions of many individuals could ease and hasten the transition to using virtual laboratories. The IONiC-VIPEr community of practice is one such community that sprung to action to provide virtual alternatives for inorganic chemistry laboratory instruction.
Topics & Concepts
Asynchronous communicationComputer scienceTask (project management)Set (abstract data type)Action (physics)Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Face (sociological concept)Mathematics educationMultimediaEngineeringPsychologySystems engineeringSociologyTelecommunicationsDiseaseInfectious disease (medical specialty)PhysicsMedicineSocial scienceProgramming languageQuantum mechanicsPathologyExperimental Learning in Engineering