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A Novel Approach to an Online Microbiology Experiment Yields Greater Student Success

A Novel Approach to an Online Microbiology Experiment Yields Greater Student Success An increase in online science course offerings requires a closer evaluation of the online laboratory experience. While it has been established that students can successfully learn from online laboratory simulations, there is a lack of knowledge regarding factors that impact student success. Grounded in the constructivist learning theory, a unique laboratory design was utilized to determine whether collaboration during an online microbiology lab experiment had an impact on student success. Additionally, the impacts of demographic factors were investigated. This study concluded that collaboration had a significantly positive impact on student success while demographics such as age, gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status did not have an impact. Although this illuminates the need for online lab developers to create collaborative science laboratory simulations that more closely mimic the traditional laboratory experience, more research is needed to elucidate additional factors that impact student success in the online science laboratory. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Distance Education Taylor & Francis

A Novel Approach to an Online Microbiology Experiment Yields Greater Student Success

American Journal of Distance Education , Volume 37 (2): 11 – Apr 3, 2023
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Taylor & Francis
Copyright
© 2022 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
ISSN
1538-9286
eISSN
0892-3647
DOI
10.1080/08923647.2022.2157627
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Abstract

An increase in online science course offerings requires a closer evaluation of the online laboratory experience. While it has been established that students can successfully learn from online laboratory simulations, there is a lack of knowledge regarding factors that impact student success. Grounded in the constructivist learning theory, a unique laboratory design was utilized to determine whether collaboration during an online microbiology lab experiment had an impact on student success. Additionally, the impacts of demographic factors were investigated. This study concluded that collaboration had a significantly positive impact on student success while demographics such as age, gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status did not have an impact. Although this illuminates the need for online lab developers to create collaborative science laboratory simulations that more closely mimic the traditional laboratory experience, more research is needed to elucidate additional factors that impact student success in the online science laboratory.

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American Journal of Distance EducationTaylor & Francis

Published: Apr 3, 2023

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