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Making Distance Learning Labs Safer

We take steps at Carolina Distance Learning® to make investigations safe for home use, and there are safeguards that you, as the instructor, can take as well. This infographic lays out in an easy-to-read format what Carolina does and how you can help to keep your students safe.

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Saving Time and Money with Online Learning

Did you know you can help your students save time and money while still providing a quality educational experience with Carolina Distance Learning® kits? Get eye-opening insight into the potential savings in costs (over $2,200) while providing the flexible schedule that online students need to succeed.

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Your Syllabus, Our Labs—It’s a Match

Can you really get free course design for investigations for your online students? Try us out! Our distance learning specialists can help you design a lab kit customized to match your desired learning outcomes. Get started with this infographic.

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Student Purchases Made Easy

When it comes to how your students purchase and receive their lab kits, you have options. Follow the two easy steps in this infographic to customize a kit to match your learning outcomes and then to choose the best way for students to purchase and receive their kits.

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Easy Steps to Course Design

Get a quick visual of the easy steps to free course design with this helpful infographic. Just send us your syllabus so we can customize a lab kit that matches your requirements. Then receive a free sample kit for evaluation, and review our free resources. Finally, we’ll build and price your kit. And don’t forget—we back our kits with a 100% satisfaction guarantee.

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Carolina Distance Learning® Overview Video

As innovators in the field for more than 90 years, we are proud to be on the cutting edge, offering kits that you can trust and rely on—and we back them with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Supported with resources such as lab manuals that can be uploaded to your LMS, editable assessments, instructional videos, and more, our kits equip you and your students for success.

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Online Labs and Graduation and Retention Rates

Do online college-level lab investigations negatively impact a school’s retention and graduation rates? This study investigates the feasibility of performing laboratory science at home, the decrease in the retention and graduation gap between traditional and online courses, and the boost in student enrollment resulting from online course offerings.

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Launching Your Own Distance Learning Lab Course

When you create a science lab for your online students, there are some considerations to keep in mind. This guide to launching a distance learning lab covers the steps in planning and developing an online course—the benefits, the pitfalls, and the liability issues to be aware of.

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Sample an Assessment 

What can you expect from our lab’s assessments? Take a look at this sample from the Chemistry of Life: Bonding and Properties of Water investigation. In this lab, students record their observations as they investigate ionic, covalent, and hydrogen bonds; test the properties of water; and examine molecular interactions.

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Dry Lab: Anatomy of Flowering Plants

CDL offers wet labs, dry labs, and simulations for you to choose from. In this dry lab, students examine the anatomy of different flowers, determine flower types, and match the types with pollination methods. Time requirement: 45 minutes.

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Partnering for Your Distance Learning Success

Combine the safe, effective hands-on lab kits from Carolina Distance Learning® with the digital learning and teaching tools from Odigia and you have a formula for success for distance learners. Read how this partnership lets you go beyond the textbook to create an immersive, engaging, and affordable experience for your online students.

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Going Hybrid-Flexible?

Download this PDF to learn more about going hybrid-flexible with Carolina Distance Learning to provide students with the same engaging, rigorous hands-on lab experiences no matter how they choose to attend class.

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Safety Is a Priority

It’s safety first, and each Carolina Distance Learning® lab kit comes with materials, instructions, and training for students to safely perform the investigations in their homes. Get an example with these instructional videos that demonstrate handwashing technique, glove application, culture use and storage, and scalpel use.

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Peer into a Virtual Microscope

Take a tour of the workings of a virtual microscope. This short video lets you preview the microscope’s parts and how to navigate it. Then view an onion root and fish blastodisc as you would through the microscope.

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Labs for Online Students? Yes!

As innovators in the field for more than 90 years, we are proud to be on the cutting edge, offering kits that you can trust and rely on—and we back them with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Supported with resources such as lab manuals that can be uploaded to your LMS, editable assessments, instructional videos, and more, our kits equip you and your students for success.

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Professionals Advance Their Careers with Carolina Distance Learning® Labs

The Food Science and Safety Certificate program offered by The American Women’s College at Bay Path University provides the science courses food safety professionals need to advance their careers. As one of the only programs of its kind in the country, it delivers the 30 credit hours of science courses required to hold supervisory positions in food safety and inspection. The program is entirely online, making it readily accessible to working professionals.

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Providing Online Biology Students with Hands-On Lab Experience

Horry-Georgetown Technical College began offering fully online sections of Biology 102 in the fall of 2023. That addition provided another means of access for students majoring in biology, nursing, and other allied health programs. Long before the first students enrolled, however, Roberts and her colleagues were busy developing an online lab program for the course. Three essential criteria for their efforts were (1) finding labs appropriate for the course content, (2) selecting hands-on labs as much as possible, and (3) staying within their student-friendly budget. They found exactly what they needed and more in the robust library of distance learning lab kits from Carolina Distance Learning®.

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Helping Advanced Students Excel—Even During the Pandemic

In late 2020, science instructor Kelsey Gilcrease began preparations for her Spring 2021 remote classes at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. She had used many Carolina materials over the years and was very familiar and pleased with them, so she checked into the physiology kit and its viability for her 300-level Biomedical Physiology class. Although the kit was customizable with digital components, Gilcrease found the included labs were already a great fit for her course.

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Piloting a New Online Course with New Carolina Distance Learning® Lab Kits

The spring of 2021 found Dr. Christina Ragain planning for a summer General Chemistry course at Southeast Missouri State University. The course was to be fully remote for the first time, so she also needed to develop a series of hands-on lab investigations for it. Like many science professors during the pandemic, Dr. Ragain was concerned about providing her students with meaningful lab investigations that they could successfully complete at home and that also match the course curriculum.

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