The University of Wisconsin Colleges has been delivering lab-based chemistry instruction in online modes for fourteen years.  This presentation will showcase two approaches for synchronous instruction: a non-majors’ online course for which students complete their labs at home, and a pre-professional program course with course content delivered exclusively online and labs offered on-site on weekends.  The other approach is an asynchronous self-paced competency-based education lab for nonmajors, for which all labs are completed online. The presentation will address strategies for designing online chemistry courses, supporting faculty who teach in those modes, and most importantly, how to support students in online chemistry instruction by creating community, for supporting remote lab instruction, and for assessing student learning. <br/>

Three approaches to supporting online learners in lab-based chemistry courses

255th National Meeting (2018)

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