We Should Keep Developing Digital Laboratory Resources in the Postpandemic Era

Link, Renée; Gallardo-Williams, Maria T.

doi:10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c01197

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“…Fortunately, with the advancement of digital technology, modern teaching techniques based on mobile terminals, the Internet, and e-learning techniques are being increasingly implemented in chemistry education. − In particular, virtual simulation experiments (VSEs), in which chemical experiments are operated online in virtual laboratories, are emerging in various forms. − Adopting VSEs in chemistry teaching can save money, time, and chemical resources and reduce chemical waste and chemical pollution, , which paves a convenient way for us to integrate the latest research findings into undergraduates’ experimental classes, and it will play a big role under some unforeseen circumstances in pandemics or in the postpandemic period . Therefore, our team designed and developed a VSE platform called “Virtual Simulation Experiment of Preparation and Test Analysis of Flexible Nanochannel Membrane Materials”, as shown in Figure , and we successfully integrated it into the curriculum of related majors.…”

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Virtual Simulation Experiments: A Teaching Option for Complex and Hazardous Chemistry Experiments

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Teaching through experiments has always been an indispensable teaching method in chemistry and other STEM disciplines. Letting more students have access to experiments at the frontier of scientific research is essential to stimulating students’ interest in chemistry. With the advancement of computer technology, virtual simulation experiments (VSEs) provide a new method to perform chemical experiments for the students who might have no resources to conduct an experiment. Here, a VSE of preparation and test analysis of flexible nanochannel membrane materials is designed by our group at Xiamen University in China, which is an interactive learning platform for studying and practicing experiments reported in the latest scientific articles. The objective pursued herein is to equip students with the appropriate tools and strategies required to perform a dangerous or complex chemical experiment. Multiexperimental paths are designed in different experimental modules and steps to meet students’ exploration needs. Our platform suits both on- and off-campus undergraduates or graduates with open access. After practicing 5–6 times, students can gain more professional skills and get higher scores in the test section as the feedback. VSE could become a remote-flexible experimental teaching method with a safer process, lower cost, and wider academic community, especially during the pandemic or in the postpandemic era.

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“…Watching an experimental video represents the passive end of the spectrum while conducting hands-on experimental work represents the active end of the spectrum. Although interactive learning experiences are often lauded, both virtual and hands-on experiences have their advantages and drawbacks. − …”

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Inter-Twine-d: Combining Organic Chemistry Laboratory and Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Games

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Remote delivery approaches to laboratory courses in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic have included a spectrum spanning passive options such as providing students with prerecorded videos of experiments to replacing in-person laboratory experiences with immersive virtual reality environments. While interactive activities that require students to make choices about experimental design or procedure, mimicking levels of inquiry present in in-person laboratory experiments, are preferred, creating custom activities of this type often require expensive equipment, a media production team, and knowledge of multiple programming languages. The open source, nonlinear storytelling platform, Twine, provides a free alternative that allows instructors to create custom interactive choose-your-own-adventure activities based on their existing laboratory curriculum and inclusive of text, images, and video clips. We used Twine to create a choose-your-own-adventure laboratory activity as the final experiment in a remote delivery format organic chemistry laboratory course that allowed students to obtain customized data based on their experimental choices. We expanded this work to create an entire course of Twine choose-your-own-adventure laboratory activities for a third term organic chemistry laboratory course.

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“…In the pandemic scenario we were facing, we could not maintain the old and traditional ways of interacting with students; we needed new technology teaching approaches . During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, Save the Children estimated that there have been a total of 112 billion days of education lost.…”

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“…7 In the pandemic scenario we were facing, we could not maintain the old and traditional ways of interacting with students; 8 we needed new technology teaching approaches. 9 During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, Save the Children 10 estimated that there have been a total of 112 billion days of education lost. 91% of students left classrooms in half of the school year, and children and adolescents lost an average of 74 days of education each.…”

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MedChemBlog: An Innovative Distance Learning Experience for Teaching Medicinal Chemistry

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A qualified teaching method is hard to achieve without traditional classroom lessons. For learning purposes, students need to interact and influence each other, like being part of an osmotic process. They need to learn in a stimulating environment, developing the ability to manage conflicts and to compare opinions. How can this be possible during a pandemic? In an innovative distance learning experiment, students have been involved in significant changes to traditional teaching methods, forced to reinvent themselves and give up face-to-face interactions. General Medicinal Chemistry and Medicinal and Toxicological Chemistry I courses at Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro (UMG) accepted the pandemic call for challenge by renewing their teaching approach, trying to re-establish the sense of community jeopardized by distance learning. Students have been involved in the creation of a multimedia tool, called "MedChemBlog", an innovative distance learning experiment. The aim was to improve the understanding of the chemical structures and drug molecular mechanisms of action, in a unique constructive fashion provided by scientific websites and databases, e.g., Protein Data Bank, DrugBank, and PubChem. In this way, students have been involved in the creation of the course's blog, their "MedChemBlog", revealed as a collector of "food for thought" for present and future students.

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We Should Keep Developing Digital Laboratory Resources in the Postpandemic Era

Cited by 13 publications

References 15 publications

Virtual Simulation Experiments: A Teaching Option for Complex and Hazardous Chemistry Experiments

Virtual Simulation Experiments: A Teaching Option for Complex and Hazardous Chemistry Experiments

Inter-Twine-d: Combining Organic Chemistry Laboratory and Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Games

MedChemBlog: An Innovative Distance Learning Experience for Teaching Medicinal Chemistry

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