Creating Engaging Remote Web-based Labs MP4 Video Consortium for Healthcare Education Online Faculty Professional Development Webinar July 16, 2014

Whether developing a remote web-based or a face-to-face lab, key steps are used to develop a lab that is challenging and engaging for your students. Farah Bennani, NANSLO’s allied health curriculum lead for the CHEO initiative and college wide chair, online learning for math, science, allied health, and psychology, Front Range Community College (FRCC), discussed how she developed labs for NANSLO as well as for her face-to-face allied health courses at FRCC. She shared her process in:. 1. Identifying the lab learning objectives. 2. Selecting applicable background information. 3. Insuring that the learning objectives drive the sequence of lab activities and questions. Other important facets of development included:. 1. Why questions poised are constructed using an inquiry-based model. 2. Why formative questions are used for procedural exercises. 3. Why summary questions at the end of each lab are more summative. Examples of questions used in existing NANSLO lab activities were provided. Farah Bennani delivered this professional development webinar on July 16, 2014 to Consortium for Healthcare Education Online (CHEO) faculty. About the Presenter: Farah Bennani, Curriculum Lead Allied Health, CHEO Initiative, and college wide chair, online learning for math, science, allied health, and psychology, Front Range Community College, teaches microbiology, anatomy, physiology and general college biology for health sciences students, as well as science of biology for non-biology majors. In addition to her doctorate of science in microbiology, Bennani holds a patent for her research study for her doctorate; an advanced studies certification; a bachelor of science in animal biology and option immunology; and a degree in computer science as an analyst-programmer. She was recognized by Who’s Who Among America’s Best Teachers in 2007 and Marquis Who’s Who and Cambridge Who’s Who for Excellence in Higher Education in 2008. She received the Master Teacher Award in 2009 at Front Range Community College (CO) and the Online Faculty Award of the Year in 2010 at Community College of Denver. She is also an affiliate faculty member at Regis University in Colorado.