Learning Science Ltd is a global provider of award-winning customisable pre and post-lab solutions that improve student performance, engagement and satisfaction across science and engineering subjects.
Engaging, simulation based online resources provide active learning opportunities to ensure your students are fully prepared when they get to the lab, enabling the most effective use of time and resources. Advanced online assessments created for your own experiments provide consistent, personalised, immediate feedback and are fully configured to match your grading requirements, streamlining the marking process and allowing effective teacher/student interaction. All solutions are delivered through your institutional VLE.
6. Online pre lab and autograded-assessment
Students better prepared for labs
Best use of lab time
Anytime, anywhere
Repetition possible
Improved use of academic time
Immediate, personalised feedback
Consistent grading
Improved student experience
7. You won't have to adapt your teaching to our
solution. Our advanced resources can be fully
customised to match your teaching goals and
grading requirements exactly.
Solutions that match your teaching
8. Before the lab
Do your students feel prepared and confident coming into their lab sessions?
Are they able to draw relationships between the theory and the experiments they are engaging in?
Supported and actively engaged
Working confidently and safely
Demonstrating understanding and awareness
13. Immediate, personalised feedback
Consistent grading
Cuts out repetitive manual marking
After the lab
Is your time taken up by marking your increasing number of students work?
Are your students asking for quicker and more personalised feedback?
Are you constantly checking the same calculations for each student?
14. Autograded postlabs
• Consistent grading
• Instant feedback to students
• Marker load reduced
• Use students’ own data
• Assessments built to your requirements
23. Content list
Chemistry
Safety in the Laboratory
Report writing
Weighing
Using Glassware
Preparing Solutions
Bunsen Burner
Electric Hot Plate and Stirring
Ice Baths and Water Baths
Alternative Heating Methods
Digital Thermometer
Measuring pH
Titration
Calorimetry and Enthalpy Change
Electrochemical Cells
Filtration
Centrifuge
Recrystallization
Decolorizing Carbon
Decantation
Sublimation
Melting Point Analysis
Freezing Point Depression
Pressure measurement
Reflux
Trapping Gases
Distillation
Boiling Point Analysis
Rotary Evaporator
Evaporating Solvents
Separatory Funnel and Drying Agents
Chromatography (TLC & Column)
Gas Chromatography
Polarimetry
Spectroscopy (IR, NMR & UV)
Microscale Introduction
Microscale Automated Pipet
Microscale Reflux
Microscale Distillation
Microscale Filtration
Microscale Recrystallization
Microscale Extraction
Qualitative Tests
Density Calculations
Balancing Equations
Mole Calculations
Yield Calculations
Kinetics, Equilibria and Ideal Gas
Calculations
Errors and Significant figures
Notas do Editor
Some of the the universities and institutions we are currently working with.
Our focus is addressing two common challenges faced when teaching practical science courses 1) preparing students effectively for laboratory sessions and 2) making sure students receive their grades and feedback in a timely fashion while reducing the burden of marking for staff and demonstrators.
Improve student performance, engagement and satisfaction with customisable pre and post lab solutions
Reduce cognitive load in labs with focused prelab resources. These familiarise students with equipment, skills and techniques, with a range of online practice activities, simulations and video instruction. The resources engage students through active learning and creative thinking building their confidence and capabilities before they arrive at the lab. Rich feedback is delivered instantly to students, maximising the effective of the learning process (neurol pathways). By chunking the delivery of information and making use of multiple senses students of all abilities and learning styles can easily digest key information before the labs. Active learning, creative learning = increased retention of information
Biggest impact. Active learning, creative thinking. Really engaging resources. Focused on particular technique / equipment setup or taking measurements. Instant feedback, freedom to explore and problem solve. Low stakes. Confidence building practice activities to motivate and engage students. Can be used in pre lab assessments.
Interactive resources allow students to practice decision making.
Interactive resources allow students to practice decision making. Currently working with a number Bioche departments to help shape our new bioscience resource library.
Interactive resources allow students to practice decision making. Looking for Universities to work with on engineering resource library...
Instant feedback is key to student learning process and satisfaction. The feedback should be personal to their answer/situation. Removing the delay in delivering the feedback means its full power and value is received by the student . The feedback should allow them to proceed with the exercise, give them confidence in their answers and calculations. Prevent them making unintentional mistakes such as typos, or carrying through erroneous data to ending up with an unsatisfactory conclusion. Feedback scaffold can be reduced/removed depending on ability (year) of student study. Ability to skip prevents students getting stuck.
Fully customisable grading, marking and feedback to match your teaching and assessment needs. High stakes, low stakes.
Virtual components (simulations) can be embedded within our Smart Worksheets and linked to the calculation cells. This allows students to generate their own data virtually and gives the opportunity to practice specific parts or the entire lab online before they start the practical session.
For physics our position is different to that of chemistry due to the differences in the ways that these labs courses are designed. Chemistry is based around a number of standard techniques for things like synthesis, purification and analysis whereas physics is based on the scientific models underlying the experiments. So, for chemistry we have a set of generic techniques and for physics we have a set of underlying code bases for a wide range of physical models. These can we quickly turned into learning objects by adding UI elements and graphics. Our physics models underpin the Cengage prelecture resources - many of which are in the animated gif showcase - and these can be demonstrated to Oxford. As well as physical models there is some key 'standard' equipment that we also cover including oscilloscopes and circuit boards.
Interactive resources allow students to practice decision making.
Tried and tested award winning solutions → Bristol ChemLabS - Times Higher Education Outstanding ICT Initiative of the Year Award 2010, eBiolabs - Runner-up for the Guardian Higher Education award 2013.
Outreach video for advanced composites for innovation and science (ACCIS)
Link to hidden Vimeo file.
Interactive resources allow students to practice decision making.