The rapid transition from college classrooms to online classes in the wake of COVID-19 has given faculty members little to no time for planning and preparation. Challenging pedagogical issues must ...

The Hands-on Purdue Science (HOPS) lab program is for high school classes. These labs provide students with hands-on science labs in the K-12 Outreach Lab in the Brown building on the West Lafayette ...

When the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile sent students home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Fernán Federici needed to find a new way to teach his biochemistry lab course. Using open-source ...

As schools across the US and world transition to online learning because of COVID-19, the coronavirus disease, some disciplines are an easier fit than others. Lab courses in the sciences rely on ...

Christina Gallup was excited to learn common biological lab techniques during her introductory bioengineering lab course because her past lab courses had taught chemistry lab skills. However, Gallup, ...

Physics lab courses are vital to science education, providing hands-on experience and technical skills that lectures can't offer. Yet, it's challenging for those in Physics Education Research (PER) to ...

In the vast shift to online teaching caused by the new coronavirus, one of the most common questions raised was: But what about lab classes? Is it even possible to move a lab course quickly online and ...

Laboratory courses require unique consideration of both student-to-student and student-to teaching staff interactions. The hands-on and collaborative nature of laboratory science may require creative ...