Top-Five Challenges for Putting Science Labs Online for Distance Education

Do you want to teach a science course online, with a lab component? How do you dissect a fetal pig, or look at pine pollen in a microscope, or trace the path of sperm development in a boar, or observe the effect of filters on fiber identification through a virtual microscopic viewer? We've answered those questions and more at North Carolina State University (Raleigh), where we have identified the top-five challenges to putting a lab online. We will use case-based examples from various disciplines to demonstrate multiple solutions using free, vendor-purchased, and reusable tools that we have developed.

Learning Objectives:
* Identify some of the challenges unique to an online lab course
* Describe various problem-solving strategies for use in an online science lab
* Examine various case studies and recognize where and how problem-solving strategies were applied