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News Release from: Academy Savant | Subject: Practical Lab Skills e-Learning programmes
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial
Team on 10 December 2007
Online training in practical laboratory
skills
Practical Lab Skills e-Learning programmes show close-up demonstrations of many basic techniques commonly practiced in the chemical laboratory
Academy Savant has released the first three modules of a series of e-Learning programmes entitled Practical Lab Skills Besides being useful as a teaching aid in the classroom environment, the publishers state that the series has also been designed as a training tool for industrial, government and medical laboratories
This article was originally published on Laboratorytalk on 29 Jan 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Among the features of these software tutorials are animations, simulations, hot-words, quizzes, exercises, a glossary, notebooks, and scorekeeping capabilities
Each module contains four to six short movies on the title subject, totaling about 30 minutes of video.
The currently available titles are:.
Basic laboratory techniques, comprising assembling apparatus, stirrers, heating and the rotary evaporator.
Distillation techniques, comprising distillation at atmospheric and at reduced pressure; fractional, steam and semi-microdistillation.
Volumetric techniques, comprising balances, pipettes, burettes and making up solutions.
These e-Learning programmes are offered in both web-delivered format and on CD.
Licensing ranges from inexpensive short-term access on individual computers to long-term subscription and permanent licenses for network/intranet installation for learning management systems.
The live-action camerawork is done in a real lab to show the correct and safe method of carrying out a particular laboratory procedure.
The full screen option allows group display, and the voice-over that is displayed as text under the picture can also printed out.
When viewing a programme on-line, the streaming-video is balanced between quality and download time.
In addition to automatically-scored multiple-choice quizzes for assessment, each movie has a section with open-ended questions for pre- or post-test discussion.
There is also an extensive glossary of technical terms.
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