Moderator: Patricia Shea,WICHE (CO) Presenter: Rhonda Epper, Colorado Community College System (CO) Presenter: Paul Stacey, BCcampus (British Columbia) Presented at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, February 13, 2012

1. NANSLO:
PUTTING
SCIENCE
LABS
ONLINE
Moderator:
Patricia
Shea,
WICHE
(CO)
Presenter:
Rhonda
Epper,
Colorado
Community
College
System
(CO)
Presenter:
Paul
Stacey,
BCcampus
(Bri@sh
Columbia)
February
13,
2012

2. Next
Genera@on
Learning
Challenges
 The
North
American
Network
of
Science
Labs
Online
(NANSLO)
was
selected
from
more
than
600
Wave
I
pre-­‐proposals
and
50
finalists
 15-­‐month,
$750,000
grant
 One
of
two
interna@onal
projects
funded
 The
Bill
&
Melinda
Gates
Founda@on
and
the
William
and
Flora
HewleZ
Founda@on
helped
design
Next
Genera@on
Learning
Challenges
and
fund
the
ini@a@ve
 Mul@year,
collabora@ve
ini@a@ve
focused
on
iden@fying
and
accelera@ng
the
growth
of
effec@ve
educa@on
technology
that
can
help
improve
college
readiness
and
comple@on
in
the
United
States,
especially
among
low-­‐income
individuals
 NGLC
is
focused
on
early-­‐stage
innova@ons
that
look
promising
but
require
significant
technology
investments
 EDUCAUSE,
dedicated
to
advancing
higher
educa@on
through
the
use
of
technology,
leads
the
NGLC
ini@a@ve

3. The
Numbers:
Online
Learning
 Use
of
online
learning
in
the
U.S.
is
beginning
to
move
from
“high
growth”
to
“steady
enrollment”
 The
Health
professions,
and
related
sciences,
stand
out
as
being
the
“fastest
growing”
 OER
is
also
seeing
increased
use
in
distance
learning
 50%
surveyed
indicate
use
in
Online
Learning
 Over
50%
use
in
Face-­‐to-­‐Face
Learning
 47%
use
in
Blended
Learning
 Concerns
about
quality
Allen,
Elaine,
and
Jeff
Seaman.
Going
the
Distance:
Online
Educa@on
in
the
United
States,
2011.
Rep.
BABSON
Survey
Research
Group,
Nov.
2011.
hZp://babson.qualtrics.com/SE/?
SID=SV_6Xpu84FGPyTh6CM.

4. Remote
Access
to
Scien@fic
Instrumenta@on
 Remote
access
to
scien@fic
instrumenta@on
has
been
in
prac@ce
for
many
years
 NASA
Mars
Rover
and
Space
Sta@on
 Remote
Sensing
in
Oceanographic
Study

5. Remote
Access
to
Scien@fic
Laboratories
 Remote
access
to
science
lab
equipment
started
in
the
mid-­‐1990s
in
higher
educa@on
 Wide-­‐spread
adop@on
is
slow
 Percep@on
that
“remote”
is
not
“real”
 Ini@al
cost
of
equipment
and
maintenance
 Technical
complexity
 Strong
student
outcomes
challenge
percep@ons
 Remote
lab
pedagogy
is
evolving

6. Benefits
of
Remote
Laboratories
 Remote
access
benefits
underserved
students
 Rural,
disabled,
and
working
students
with
difficult
schedules
can
access
scien@fic
experiments
24x7
 Networked
laboratories
promote
efficiency
 Expensive
scien@fic
resources
are
shared
by
mul@ple
ins@tu@ons
and
scheduled
for
maximum
efficiency
 Students
enjoy
benefits
of
remote
access
 Extended
opportunity
for
repeated
experimenta@on
 Preferred
over
use
of
simula@ons
 Equipment
and
materials
are
controlled
 Access
to
expensive
or
dangerous
materials

7. NANSLO
Mission
Statement
 NANSLO
provides
a
consor@um
approach
to
the
development
and
deployment
of
high-­‐quality,
modular,
openly
licensed
courseware
integra@ng
learner-­‐centered
and
immersive
web-­‐based
labs
using
sooware,
video
and
robo@cs
for
the
study
of
science
courses

8. 8
North
American
Network
of
Science
Labs
Online
-­‐
NANSLO
Bri@sh
Columbia
Colorado
Wyoming
Montana

10. NANSLO
Project
Objec@ves
 Developing
high-­‐quality
first-­‐semester
core
curriculum
for
Biology,
Chemistry,
&
Physics
 Designing
comprehensive
laboratory
learning
experiences
which
meet
learning
outcomes
while
accommoda@ng
flexible
delivery
op@ons
 Integra@ng
innova@ve
technologies
for
media@ng
science
learning
 Remote
Web-­‐based
Science
Laboratories
 Lab
kits

11. 11
NANSLO

12. NANSLO
Deliverables
 Three
open
courses
including
course
curriculum
and
laboratory
experiments
for
first-­‐semester
biology,
chemistry
&
physics
 NANSLO
Network
&
Expansion
Resources
 establishes
a
federated
network
of
US
and
Canadian
post-­‐
secondary
ins@tu@ons
collec@vely
collabora@ng
on
and
using
open
core
science
courses
and
remote
web-­‐based
science
labs.
 Environmental
Scan
of
remote
science
educa@on
labs
in
the
US
and
Canada
 How-­‐to
adop@on
manual
of
case
studies,
policies
and
procedures
that
others
can
use
to
guide
their
own
adop@on
of
RWSL
 Scale
network
template
that
provides
guidance
on
scaling
use
of
remote
labs
across
all
ins@tu@ons
collabora@ng
in
NANSLO
as
well
as
a
sustainability
model.
 Evaluator
Report

13. Remote
Web-­‐Based
Science
Laboratories
• Allows
par@cipa@on
in
laboratory
experiments
for
students
who
may
otherwise
be
unable
to
aZend
a
tradi@onal
classroom/laboratory
seqng
• Students
interact
with
and
manipulate
remote
scien@fic
laboratory
equipment
• Class
works
in
small
groups
or
individually
to
collect
authen@c
real-­‐world
scien@fic
data
in
real
@me
• Ideally,
students
feel
like
they
are
“in
the
lab”,
or
at
least,
“in
the
next
room”

14. Lab
Kits
for
Remote
Student
Use
 Students
are
provided
with
all
laboratory
equipment
necessary
for
remote
experimenta@on
Physics
lab
kit
example

15. Equipment
for
Remote
Access
 Lab
Server
(required)
 Desktop
computer,
Video
archive
storage
 Na@onal
Instruments’
LabVIEW
with
virtual
instruments
 Video/Audio
(required)
 Cameras,
Capture
Card,
Video
Mul@plexer,
Streaming
Audio/Video
Server
 Various
Hardware
 Frame,
Robo@c
Slides
and
Tables
Robo@c
Posi@oning
Slides
and
Rotary
Tables,
Robo@c
Arm,
Spectrometer,
Digital
Microscope,
Air
Track

16. 16
Text
Chat
Skype
Elluminate
RWSL
Overview
16
Lab
Equipment
Internet
RWSL
Observa@on
Data
Manipula@on
Students
Communica@ons
Data
Acquisi@on
Video/Audio
Observa@on
Physical
Manipula@on
Google+ Hangouts
Skype
Elluminate

17. 17
Pan
Tilt
Zoom
Camera
Video
Streamer
Video
Mixer
Observa@on

18. 18
Robo@c
Arm
Linear
Slides
Rotary
Tables
Slide
Loader
Physical
Manipula@on

19. 19
Chemistry/Physics
Spectrometer
–
proper@es
of
light
such
as
intensity,
polariza@on,
wavelength
LabVIEW
Sooware
Data
Acquisi@on

20. NANSLO
Considera@ons
for
the
Future
 Further
partners
&
funding
are
being
sought
for
expansion
of
North
American
Network,
ideas
include:
 Con@nua@on
and
expansion
of
discipline
panels
of
faculty
collabora@ng
on
development
of
open
courses
 Developing
or
adop@ng
an
open
textbook
for
the
open
biology,
chemistry
and
physics
courses
 Expanding
development
of
online
science
courses
using
the
RWSL
from
first
year
to
second,
third,
and
fourth
years
toward
a
complete
creden@al
 Partnering
with
other
exis@ng
science
lab
online
ini@a@ves
to
broaden
the
areas
of
science
beyond
physics,
biology,
and
chemistry
to
other
scien@fic
domains
 Instruc@onally
designing
a
pedagogy
that
op@mally
blends
lab
kits,
simula@ons,
and
RWSL
–
proposal
pending
on
this
topic
to
NSF
 Sustaining
and
expanding
the
RWSL
as
a
shared
service
to
rural
students/
tribal
councils,
other
ins@tu@ons
or
states/provinces

21. CONTACT
INFORMATION
Pat
Shea,
NANSLO
PI
pshea@wiche.edu
Rhonda
Epper,
CCCS
rhonda.epper@cccs.edu
Paul
Stacey,
BCcampus
pstacey@bccampus.ca
Project
Overview
hZp://www.wiche.edu/nanslo
NANSLO
Wiki
hZp://nanslo.pbworks.com