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As more and more students embrace online learning—more than 6.9 million of them in the United States in the fall of 2018—it’s imperative to keep abreast of this growing education trend and even better to get ahead of it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An instructor at your institution has decided to adopt Carolina Distance Learning Lab Kits for their students. Below you will find information about ordering vouchers for Carolina Distance Learning Lab kits.
A new eBook that explains how you can plan your course, source lab materials, run your course and work with Carolina.
Carolina Distance Learning backs up our quality distance learning science with extensive assistance for you and your students.
Accurate and early self-assessment can help students to determine if they’re ready for distance learning and focus on needed changes to achieve success.
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.
Misaligned student and instructor expectations may create frustration and lead to attrition in distance learning courses. Clear communication among all class participants is essential for aligning expectations.
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.
Who better to give advice about online science education than professors who develop and teach these courses? We reached out to some of these savvy educators and collected ten key tips that can guide you in providing a successful learning experience.
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.
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.
Our lab kits combine high-quality materials and effective instructions. In this wet lab, students investigate ionic, covalent, and hydrogen bonds.
From upholding academic integrity to purposeful assessments to reviewing students’ experiential learning, get an outline of five considerations that offer guidance in gauging understanding among your distance learning students.
Carolina Distance Learning® delivers your lab kit’s digital resources to your Dropbox, so it’s important to understand that process.
Quality Matters™ (QM) is an international organization recognized as a leader in online education quality assurance. It offers a subscription-based service for course review and certification.
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.
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.
For students to perform their best in an online course, they need to be engaged with you as the instructor as well as with other students taking the class. From first impressions to a social presence, these tips can pave the way for success.
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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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.
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.
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.
UNCW partnered with Carolina to provide distance learning biology labs that help prepare nursing students for advanced life science courses.
Rockingham Community College pairs open-source textbooks and distance learning lab kits to remove barriers to educational access. Find out how.
Two professors explain how Carolina Distance Learning enabled them to quickly get online classes up and running with custom lab kits specifically designed for home use.
Oregon State University (OSU) has had great success with its online Introductory Biology course. The academic materials manager at OSU and Carolina staff work together to design a seamless process for students to order lab kits for the course.
Students traveling domestically or abroad are able to complete their online chemistry course thanks to hassle-free lab kit delivery from Carolina.
A Hennepin Technical College faculty member raises the bar for her nursing students with customizable, experiential science lab kits.
Anatomy and physiology students at Chattanooga State Community College excel thanks to Carolina Distance Learning® lab kits.
Customizable lab kits from Carolina Distance Learning continue to meet the needs of students and colleges. Find out how.
Ashford students benefit from custom-designed labs that engage their imagination, strengthen their science literacy and critical-thinking skills, and fulfill course criteria.
A professor successfully launches Alderson Broaddus University’s first online biology course with straightforward, effective labs from Carolina Distance Learning®.
Dr. Lisa Nagy got started teaching undergraduate chemistry classes during her own graduate school program. After graduating with a Ph.D. in organic chemistry, Nagy continued teaching at the college level and joined Jefferson State Community College (JSCC) in 2011.
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.
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®.
Hear from several of our customers how Distance Learning Kits have helped them in their classroom.
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.
Science teachers around the world faced an incredible challenge in 2020: providing their students with meaningful laboratory learning at home. Dr. Emily Rumschlag Booms successfully tackled this challenge for her microbiology students at Northeastern Illinois University.
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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