Teaching Tip: Insights from UAF’s new online organic chemistry labs

September 15, 2020

Marissa Carl

Pictured above are most of the instruments, glassware and materials that will be used for at-home labs by Organic Chemistry I students in fall 2020.
Pictured above are most of the instruments, glassware and materials that will be used for at-home labs by Organic Chemistry I students in fall 2020.


This fall, UAF’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry debuted its asynchronous online organic chemistry series with labs. There’s a reason this has not been done before: It requires an enormous amount of planning. But we’re doing it, and with some of the wisdom shared here, you might think about taking your lab course completely online as well.

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— Teaching Tip by Tom Green, chemistry professor, and Dan LaSota, instructional designer at UAF eCampus