Learn strategies for creating collaborative online/hybrid science lab courses that mimic traditional face-to-face lab experiences. The discussion will describe how lab environments can be created using existing technology in a Learning Management System and help students experience the genuine excitement of discovery science without coming to a physical campus.

Session Objectives: • Describe practices that promote experimentation and documentation procedures that reflect actual lab environments. • Highlight innovative strategies that encourage students to collaborate with one another as part of their lab activity. • Demonstrate how instructors can create personalized online learning support materials to enhance instructor presence as well as to help students make a deeper connection to lab procedures, activities, and learning outcomes. Short lessons on best practices for online video creation and creating OER content will be a part of this session. • Discuss the benefits of creating experiential assessments that gauge student competency and provide a combination of immediate feedback in addition to protracted academic outcomes. Technology creates a multitude of opportunities for students to document their participation in the lab activity. • Introduce ideas for taking a lab kit to the next level with custom instructor-created content.

The focus of this session is to share strategies for creating collaborative online or hybrid science lab courses that mimic traditional face-to-face lab experiences. The discussion will describe how lab environments can be created using existing technology in a Learning Management System and help students experience the genuine excitement of discovery science without coming to a physical campus. Examples of experimentation and documentation procedures that reflect actual lab environments and create student lab results that verify individual and group participation will be shared. This session will also include a discussion of innovative assessments.