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Pre‐lab video demonstrations to enhance students' laboratory experience in a first‐year chemical engineering class

The limited capabilities of teaching laboratories, combined with an increasing number of students enrolled in university, require constant augmentation of instructional approaches. By enhancing laboratory demonstrations with digital technology, these structural issues can be addressed while at the s...

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Autores principales: Onyeaka, Helen, Passaretti, Paolo, Miri, Taghi, Hart, Abarasi, Favero, Claudia, Anumudu, Christian K., Robbins, Phillip
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10092182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36314428
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bmb.21688
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author Onyeaka, Helen
Passaretti, Paolo
Miri, Taghi
Hart, Abarasi
Favero, Claudia
Anumudu, Christian K.
Robbins, Phillip
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Passaretti, Paolo
Miri, Taghi
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Favero, Claudia
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description The limited capabilities of teaching laboratories, combined with an increasing number of students enrolled in university, require constant augmentation of instructional approaches. By enhancing laboratory demonstrations with digital technology, these structural issues can be addressed while at the same time enhancing student understanding and learning. Our case study focuses on the fermentation lab part of the Reaction Equilibria and Thermodynamics (RET) module, a first‐year chemical engineering course at the University of Birmingham. Video demonstrations were used to introduce students to the laboratory set‐ups and walk them through each step and technique. The video demonstrations allowed the students to attend the in‐person lab sessions having established knowledge and understanding of the processes involved and the outcomes desired, which decreased the burden on the facilities and the staff. A knowledge‐based quiz and a student survey conducted at the end of the module showed that the pre‐lab videos encouraged more active participation in the laboratory sessions and reinforced learning. Approximately 70% of the students polled in the first survey conducted within this project felt more confident going into the laboratory sessions after watching the pre‐lab videos and attempting the knowledge quiz, while 92% of the students polled in the second survey judged the pre‐lab video sessions as beneficial to them. Overall, the teaching method has the potential to improve student participation and access, boost confidence and learning, and provided a more structured and flexible approach to laboratory learning outcomes.
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spelling pubmed-100921822023-04-13 Pre‐lab video demonstrations to enhance students' laboratory experience in a first‐year chemical engineering class Onyeaka, Helen Passaretti, Paolo Miri, Taghi Hart, Abarasi Favero, Claudia Anumudu, Christian K. Robbins, Phillip Biochem Mol Biol Educ Articles The limited capabilities of teaching laboratories, combined with an increasing number of students enrolled in university, require constant augmentation of instructional approaches. By enhancing laboratory demonstrations with digital technology, these structural issues can be addressed while at the same time enhancing student understanding and learning. Our case study focuses on the fermentation lab part of the Reaction Equilibria and Thermodynamics (RET) module, a first‐year chemical engineering course at the University of Birmingham. Video demonstrations were used to introduce students to the laboratory set‐ups and walk them through each step and technique. The video demonstrations allowed the students to attend the in‐person lab sessions having established knowledge and understanding of the processes involved and the outcomes desired, which decreased the burden on the facilities and the staff. A knowledge‐based quiz and a student survey conducted at the end of the module showed that the pre‐lab videos encouraged more active participation in the laboratory sessions and reinforced learning. Approximately 70% of the students polled in the first survey conducted within this project felt more confident going into the laboratory sessions after watching the pre‐lab videos and attempting the knowledge quiz, while 92% of the students polled in the second survey judged the pre‐lab video sessions as beneficial to them. Overall, the teaching method has the potential to improve student participation and access, boost confidence and learning, and provided a more structured and flexible approach to laboratory learning outcomes. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2022-10-31 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10092182/ /pubmed/36314428 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bmb.21688 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10092182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36314428
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bmb.21688
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