Virtual teaching laboratories – hands-on at a distance

• DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2021-vsd4j-v2
• Publication Date: 2022-02-01T15:10:08Z
• Authors: Rika Kobayashi; Theodorus P. M. G...; N. Ole Carstensen; Thomas M. Soini; Nicola Marzari; Iurii Timrov; Samuel Poncé; Edward B. Linscott; Christopher J. Se...; Giovanni Pizzi; Francisco Ramirez; Marnik Bercx; Sebastiaan P. Huber; Carl S. Adorf; Leopold Talirz
• Keywords: Chemistry Education; Online Teaching

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted chemistry teaching practices globally as many courses were forced online necessitating adaptation to the digital platform. biggest impact was practical component of curriculum – so-called wet lab. Naively, it would be thought that computer-based labs have little problem in making move. However, this is not case there are unrecognised differences between delivering in-person and virtually: software issues, technology classroom management. Consequently, relatively few “hands-on” computational laboratories delivered online. In paper we describe these issues more detail how they can addressed, drawing on our experience a third-year course well remote hands-on workshops for Virtual Winter School Computational Chemistry European BIG-MAP project.