Delivery of university-level courses through online and distance education can overcome barriers such as geographical location, lecture and lab scheduling, or their job and family commitments, distance delivery offers practical alternatives to traditional on-campus education. The aim of this collection is to inform science educators about current practices in online and distance education: distance-delivered methods for laboratory coursework, the requisite administrative and institutional aspects of online and distance teaching, as well as the relevant educational theory.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Learning
Chapter One: Interactions Affording Distance Science Education / Terry Anderson
Chapter Two: Learning Science at a Distance: Instructional Dialogues and Resources / Paul Gorsky and Avner Caspi
Chapter Three: Leadership Strategies for Coordinating Distance Education Instructional Development Teams / Gale Parchoma
Chapter Four: Toward New Models of Flexible Education to Enhance Quality in Australian Higher Education / Stuart Palmer, Dale Holt, and Alan Farley
Laboratories
Chapter Five: Taking the Chemistry Experience Home — Home Experiments or “Kitchen Chemistry” / Robert Lyall and Antonio (Tony) F. Patti
Chapter Six: Acquisition of Laboratory Skills by On-Campus and Distance Education Students / Jenny Mosse and Wendy Wright
Chapter Seven: Low-Cost Physics Home Laboratory / Farook Al-Shamali and Martin Connors
Chapter Eight: Laboratories in the Earth Sciences / Edward Cloutis
Chapter Nine: Remote Control Teaching Laboratories and Practicals / Dietmar Kennepohl
Logistics
Chapter Ten: Needs, Costs, and Accessibility of de Science Lab Programs / Lawton Shaw and Robert Carmichael
Chapter Eleven: Challenges and Opportunities for Teaching Laboratory Sciences at a Distance in a Developing Country / Md. Tofazzal Islam
Chapter Twelve: Distance and Flexible Learning at University of the South Pacific / Anjeela Jokhan and Bibhya N. Sharma
Chapter Thirteen: Institutional Considerat