The inverted or flipped course has become an increasingly popular method of teaching in the past decade at both the college and high school levels. The classes involve the use of online lectures for student to review prior to class. In small undergraduate institutions where there are no graduate students or teaching assistants in laboratory classes it is often difficult to help students with instrumentation outside of the assigned lab hours.  This problem is further compounded by having a short laboratory period (3 Hours and 10 minutes). This presentation describes the use of online lectures and QR codes to both increase class lab time by reducing the prelab preparation time and by providing instant instruction on how to operate the instruments and prepare samples.  This method has been in both the organic I and organic II sophomore labs for the last year and a half. This method has given students more time in the laboratory, an ability to review the prelab instructions and methods for analysis as well as video directed instruction at the instruments.

Using QR codes and online videos in the undergraduate organic chemistry lab

249th National Meeting (2015)

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