What is it about?

It is often difficult for distance learners to complete physical science classes with laboratory components, due to the difficulties in conducting such activities remotely. This can create a significant barrier to finishing a college degree. We have developed a set of college astronomy laboratory exercises that can be completed by students working alone and at a distance, providing many supporting resources to help them to succeed.

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Why is it important?

We are able to offer our resources without charge to instructors and students who could benefit from them. We would like to reach out to potential users, to encourage them to contact us and to use our materials. We also encourage educators in other fields to use our development model to create similar resources for themselves.

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Our astronomy laboratory exercises are meant to be used, and we are eager to collaborate with instructors, students, and other members of the public to use them in formal course settings and in more casual outreach activities. Our materials contain both hands-on experiments (involving building simple apparatuses out of common household items) and opportunities to analyze images and spectra of astronomical objects such as planets, stars, and galaxies.

Professor Nicole P. Vogt
New Mexico State University

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This page is a summary of: A New Resource for College Distance Education Astronomy Laboratory Exercises, American Journal of Distance Education, July 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/08923647.2013.795365.
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