This presentation will describe a synchronous virtual laboratory course utilizing an in-house developed home kit. Laboratory experiments have been designed to be collaborative with a significant guided inquiry component. Importantly, experiments are performed in the students’ places of residence. Students develop methodology and conceptual understanding as teams. In the collaborative team environment, students work individually using resources in the home kit to acquire data. Pooled data is frequently analyzed as a team allowing individual members to evaluate the validity of their own data and have an opportunity to perform needed corrections. Multiple times during a given laboratory session team data is further pooled as a class and analyzed. The chemistry department developed this virtual laboratory as a potential replacement for an asynchronous virtual laboratory in which students acquire and analyze data from a set of pre-recorded videos. Initial evaluation and feedback of the new laboratory course are encouraging and will be presented.

Design of a collaborative synchronous virtual laboratory course using an in-house developed home kit

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