Strategies, Practice and Lessons Learned from Remote Teaching of the General Chemistry Laboratory Course at Brown University
Strategies, Practice and Lessons Learned from Remote Teaching of the General Chemistry Laboratory Course at Brown University
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DOI：
10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c00746
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发表时间：
2020-09-08
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通讯作者：
Ren, Jolie
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作者：
Wang, Li-Qiong;Ren, Jolie
2020 年春季 COVID-19 大流行给学术界带来了突然的干扰，给教学带来了前所未有的挑战，但也带来了许多教训，推动了应对危机战略的制定。由于学生的化学背景和学习水平不同，普通化学实验课程通常被认为很难教授，从面对面教学过渡到远程教学使其更具挑战性。在本次交流中，我们将分享疫情期间在布朗大学（美国罗德岛州普罗维登斯）远程教学大型普通实验室课程的经验、策略和教训。还将概述未来最大限度地提高学生学习的改进措施。我们的远程教学已应用了几种新颖的方法；互动实验室视频是在大流行之前通过合作创建的，让学生可视化实验过程，从而减轻了这一大型实验室课程向远程教学的压力。此外，我们的混合实验室报告以及其他在线材料可以帮助学生更好地了解实验是如何进行的。从这次大流行中吸取的教训促使远程教学的教学方法得到进一步改进。这些经验和反思将有利于其他教育工作者未来应对疫情危机。
Abrupt disruptions to academia, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Spring 2020, have brought unprecedented challenges in teaching, yet it has brought many lessons, driving the development of strategies in response to the crisis. The general chemistry laboratory course is often considered difficult to teach, due to students heterogeneous chemistry backgrounds and learning levels, and transitioning from in-person to remote teaching made it even more challenging. In this communication, we will share our experiences, strategies, and lessons learned from the remote teaching of a large general laboratory course at Brown University (Providence, RI, USA) during the pandemic. Future improvements to maximize student learning will also be outlined. Several novel approaches have been applied to our remote teaching; interactive lab videos, created prior to the pandemic through a collaborative effort for students to visualize the experimental procedures, enabled a less stressful transition to remote teaching for this large laboratory course. Furthermore, our hybrid lab reports, along with other online materials, helped students to better understand how experiments are conducted. The lessons learned from this pandemic prompted further improvement to the pedagogy of remote teaching. Such experiences and reflections will benefit other educators to combat pandemic crises in the future.