Experiencing a NANSLO Remote Web-based Mitosis Lab Activity MP4 Video Consortium for Healthcare Education Online Faculty Professional Development Webinar December 6, 2013

How does a student actually perform a NANSLO lab activity? What do they see and do? Do they see value in using a remote web-based lab? How is it incorporated into a class? Buie used the NANSLO Meiosis and Mitosis Lab Activity in her fall 2013 human biology class at Kodiak College, University of Alaska Anchorage. She shared her insights into the value of remote web-based labs, described how it worked for her lab assignment, how she integrated it into her class, and her students’ reaction to the lab. Next, Branan, Lab Director, NANSLO Colorado Laboratory, provided an overview of the LabView web-enabled control panel used to perform microscope activities. Then, using a short lab activity provided to faculty in advance of this webinar, participants were given an opportunity to take control and perform a component of the meiosis and mitosis lab activity. Participants experienced what a student would do during a NANSLO lab activity. They were asked, at the end, to share reflections on their experience, including the best part of the activity and ways it could be improved. Suzanne Buie and Dan Branan delivered this professional development webinar on December 6, 2013 to Consortium for Healthcare Education Online (CHEO) faculty. About the Presenters: Suzanne Buie, DPT, STC is the Department Chair of Health Sciences at Kodiak College. She has been teaching since 2005 using face-to-face, hybrid, and distance delivery methods. Currently, Buie instructs in a distance delivery format. She has developed and instructed several courses to include: Anatomy and Physiology I and II, Medical Terminology, Core Concepts in Health Science, and most recently, Human Biology, in collaboration with NANSLO and WICHE. Buie is responsible for supervising the Certified Nursing Certificate Program and is the Curriculum Developer for an Occupational Endorsement in Medical Coding which is also a collaborative effort with NANSLO and WICHE. Buie has been a clinician for the past 15 years with a specialty in Sports and Orthopaedic Therapy. She is the owner of Arctic Physical Therapy in Kodiak, Alaska. She has been published in the Amercian Physical Therapy Association’s Journal of Sports Therapy for her work with catastrophically injured high school football players. Dan Branan is the North American Network of Science Labs Online (NANSLO) lab director at the Colorado Community College System. He provides leadership and coordination for the many subject-area teams working on projects. Previously, he served at the U.S. Air Force Academy as an assistant professor of chemistry, co-director of the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, and research director for the Institute for Information Technology Applications. Branan received his B.S. in chemistry from the University of South Alabama, his M.S. in inorganic chemistry from the Ohio State University, and his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Denver.