<p>Has anyone ever taken a science and lab online, as title states? I wanna know how the lab works, in someone else's experience?? Would it be better to learn science material, esp with a lab included, in person?</p>
<p>I know this depends on the school and class, but nobody I know has taken a science lecture AND lab online so I can't get any feedback form them. The syllabus is not yet up and I do have a deadline to decide when to drop before no consequences.</p>
<p>What kind of science class is this? If it’s a chemistry class, I don’t understand how the lab can be online.</p>
<p>It is a geology class. I’m not understanding how any science lab can be online, period, lol.</p>
<p>I took a biology class and the lab online… it was different. Much easier to do the lab in class. </p>
<p>If I remember correctly, I had to do my projects via youtube. Which means that the professor made us look at the instructions via youtube and we had to post pictures/papers about our lab projects online. To be honest, I didn’t like it like that at all, it made doing the projects kind of difficult for me, especially if I was having problems with a lab because I couldn’t get real help from the professor.</p>
<p>Smurray09,</p>
<p>Thanks. That actually sounds horrible – I’m considering dropping it if that’s how our labs work as well (how else would they work? I think it’d be the same).</p>
<p>Could you not possibly take the class and lab physically? And take another of your classes online? History/humanities classes are easier to take online, as you can just do the readings and do an online discussion board or something. You get the same thing out of it. </p>
<p>For a lab, the lab technique is almost as important as the substance of the lab itself. For instance, in my organic lab, I recrystallized so many times that I can almost do it mechanically now. Without that sort of equipment at home, you really can’t learn technique, which is what lab is really all about.</p>
<p>Hard to believe as it may sound, I took both lab and lectures online for both Anatomy and Physiology and Microbiology at my cc 9 or 10 years ago. While I got A’s in all, I don’t think I got much out of the labs, especially Microbiology. A&P doesn’t really have traditional lab work anyway, mostly just matching body parts to their functions, so I guess it was okay. I was fermenting kimchi and growing mold on bread in my kitchen for Micro lab. Very different. I don’t recommend it. I don’t think they even offer micro lab online anymore at that school and I’ve never met anyone else who has taken Micro lab online…for good reason.</p>
<p>Science labs…online? That’s stupid.</p>
<p>Internet classes are useful in some situations, but for science labs? Come on now. No. Science LABORATORIES should be done in a LABORATORY.</p>
<p>Personally, I would never take an online class though. The idea doesn’t appeal to me in the slightest.</p>