Teaching Anatomy and Physiology fully online, including a “wet lab”, quizzes, and multimedia is now a reality, and the results are impressive. Professor Marian Langer and Instructional Designer Laurie Grosik of St. Francis University in Loretto, PA, present unique perspectives, best practices, communication methods, student interaction and feedback, as well as learning results based on a model developed from teaching Anatomy and Physiology online at St. Francis University. With funding from a grant with the United States Navy, Saint Francis University develop a distance-based, health science degree program that will provide Independent Duty Corpsmen (IDC) academic credentials to bridge the gap as they transition from military to civilian life. This program affords students the opportunity to earn their Bachelor of Science Health Science degree, while building a solid health science core foundation and preparing for a graduate professional healthcare degree. Dr. Langer and Ms. Grosik will review how they overcame the obstacles of launching their courses. They will present current innovative technologies and engaging methodologies, interactive multimedia formats used to deliver course content overseas, Web 2.0 tools, programs such as Wimba Virtual Classroom, Impactica for PowerPoint, Respondus, Studymate 2.0, Mediasite, and LabPaq experiences which have allowed students to perform traditional wet labs within the convenience of their own homes, dorm rooms, and military bases around the world; blurring the lines between face-to-face and online delivery methods. Audience: Administration, Science Department Chairs, Lab Science Faculty, Curriculum Designers, Distance Learning management and staff. Participants learn solutions to transition lab science courses into an online format and provide hands-on labs experiences. Activity: Professor Langer will invite selected audience members to participate in a live demonstration of an anatomy and physiology lab that replicates activities of their online students. Participants will review lab directions, use materials, and equipment to perform the experiment, and analyze results. They will do a condensed version of this activity in a remote environment in the presentation room and experience what students do taking this online lab science class. Learning Outcomes: Participants will learn inventive methods for course design, instruction, discussion, and innovative ways for conducting the wet lab portion of a science course utilizing LabPaqs. Participants will also gain an understanding as to the interactive, personalized, experiential, and “hands-on” components their students gain while participating in an online anatomy and physiology course at St. Francis University. Visual Aides: Materials required to complete a lab experiment just as students do taking a lab science class online and doing their labs at home or other location remote of a college lab. Handouts: Lab exercise directions, description, procedures, and report template
