The development and implementation of remote labs has been essential for a variety of reasons.  First, most of Higher Education had some modified form of lab in some format to include functioning off-campus at all course levels during the spring of 2020, fall of 2020 and spring of 2021 semesters.  During the summer of 2020, a subset group of ASDLIB met to discuss and develop resources for labs that can be taught off-campus/at home for high school, general chemistry, quantitative analysis and instrumental analysis courses.  The group constructed labs and simulations that include finding the pressure inside an unopened carbonated beverage, a penny statistics lab, creating and using a 3D printed photometer for quantitative determination of dyes, gravimetric acid-base titrations and an Excel-based HPLC simulator. Other resources highlighted here from others include a signal-to-noise ratio exercise using virtual instruments created using LabView, MICROLab titrations, and an interactive web application highlighting NMR Fourier transform calculations.  All of these resources, to include some supplementary material from the authors, can be found at remotelabs.asdlib.org and are freely accessible under a Creative Commons license.

Online options for off-site learning in lower and upper-level analytical chemistry labs

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