School supplies for some students in online biology classes at Arizona State University now include virtual reality goggles, a move toward further online science-lab instruction that many academics ...

Between lab requirements and the use of classroom equipment to conduct research, the hard sciences -- biology, chemistry and physics, to name a few -- may not initially seem suited for the online ...

Biology class just got a lot more engaging for students at Arizona State University Polytechnic, where students are using virtual reality to explore it through immersive lessons that apply real-world ...

Peggy Wall, an online bachelor’s student in the for-profit American Public University System, had a fetal pig delivered to her doorstep last year, along with a dead frog and a grasshopper, among other ...

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Virtual reality could be a dream come true, or a nightmare in the flesh. It could be anything that it is programmed to be with no real limitations. ASU, with its everlasting call to innovation, has ...

Course content: The course provides a general education in basic biology, touching on ecology, chemistry, cell life, genetics, evolution, and other topics. Target audience: The course is offered to ...

Institutions hoping to take their science programs online often run into the same roadblock: how to translate a discipline built around tactile lab experiences to a digital environment. Oregon State ...

Students in PHYS 102 labs are required to complete three labs by the end of the semester through video analysis. Credit: Sukhmani Kaur Students in lab courses are raising concerns over missing out on ...

When Genamae Swintek, a sophomore at the Jubilee Academic Center charter school, enrolled in an online biology course last summer, she didn't expect to have to catch crickets in her yard for an ...