Online Organic Chemistry lab at Brigham Young University

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Sample lab:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzlUcWLorhU

What do you think of it?

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[Tappinfool66]

If I could advance time like that in a real life organic lab, I'd be one happy camper.

 

[st2205]

Man, why didn't this exist when I was at BYU?

 

[st2205]

Is this becoming an actual course or is it just for augmentation?

 

[wlee43]

It looks boring..can't wait for the actual real lab next year

 

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Is this becoming an actual course or is it just for augmentation?

Apparently my stake president's daughter is taking this class. She didn't come home for Christmas but chose to visit a friend in Vermont instead, otherwise I would have run into her and asked her all about it.

 

[common man]

i personally love online classes but...you should avoid them for actual pre-reqs like organic chem lab...because some schools want the pre-reqs taken in a traditional classroom environment.

 

[MeowMeowCAT]

Online class? Ha! I don't think you can get the "real" experience of an OChem lab without the 4-5 hour lab.

 

[Morzh]

There is no online chemistry lab through BYU or BYU independent study. That software in the video is Virtual Chem Lab, which some professors have students use for supplementary homework assignments. I had to use it a few times in gen chem, but never in ochem.

I did, however, take 2nd semester physics through BYU independent study, which was all online (I did have to take real, proctored exams, of course). The best part is that if you are a student at BYU, it just shows up as regular old classroom credit on your transcript for the semester during which you finish the course - not as an online class. So med schools count it as "on-campus". The labs, of course, were not available online.

 

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I did, however, take 2nd semester physics through BYU independent study, which was all online (I did have to take real, proctored exams, of course). The best part is that if you are a student at BYU, it just shows up as regular old classroom credit on your transcript for the semester during which you finish the course - not as an online class. So med schools count it as "on-campus". The labs, of course, were not available online.

I wouldn't be too sure about that. Med schools - at least one of them - seem to want course descriptions or syllabus. These would tell them the class is an online class.

 

[circulus vitios]

Online class? Ha! I don't think you can get the "real" experience of an OChem lab without the 4-5 hour lab.

Organic lab sure was an experience.

Reflux...for 3 hours.
Hot glass looks the same as cold glass!
The condenser tube came off spraying water all over everyone!
Oops I forgot this step. Time to start over, only an hour wasted.
Product should be an oil...I get a two-layer greasy colloid.
Which layer do I keep of the extraction? Professor is all "I DUNNO LOL!!!"

 

[st2205]

I wouldn't be too sure about that. Med schools - at least one of them - seem to want course descriptions or syllabus. These would tell them the class is an online class.

No school will ask for these unless they have some requirement (i.e. genetics) that you covered in, say, a molecular bio class or when they require classes that your undergrad doesn't offer such as BYU not having general bio 1 and 2. I took chem 2 online through SLCC and wasn't asked about it. Took a handful of independent study classes but not any prerequisites (unless you count stats) but wouldn't have been averse to doing so.

 

[s1lver]

Where do I sign up?

 

[TTigers70]

magical red x FTW!

 

[Evergrey]

Organic lab was fun. Figuring out extraction layers though is, as aforementioned, extremely difficult. I met a pharmaceutical chemist the other day and his job was basically being really really good at extraction 🙂

 

[rhesuspieces]

Organic lab sure was an experience.

Reflux...for 3 hours.
Hot glass looks the same as cold glass!
The condenser tube came off spraying water all over everyone!
Oops I forgot this step. Time to start over, only an hour wasted.
Product should be an oil...I get a two-layer greasy colloid.
Which layer do I keep of the extraction? Professor is all "I DUNNO LOL!!!"

qft.

Mystery solvents on a semester's worth of NMRs because some kid contaminated the CDCl3 during the second week of class

What do you mean acetone doesn't clean EVERYTHING?

Oh, crap, forgot my boiling stones. Eh, I'll just drop them in now--OH ****

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE REPLACEMENT BUCHNER FUNNEL COSTS $35??!

See what you'd be missing out on?

 

[chemphysicsinstructor]

There is no online chemistry lab through BYU or BYU independent study. That software in the video is Virtual Chem Lab, which some professors have students use for supplementary homework assignments. I had to use it a few times in gen chem, but never in ochem.

I did, however, take 2nd semester physics through BYU independent study, which was all online (I did have to take real, proctored exams, of course). The best part is that if you are a student at BYU, it just shows up as regular old classroom credit on your transcript for the semester during which you finish the course - not as an online class. So med schools count it as "on-campus". The labs, of course, were not available online.

I am open to hearing your feedback and comments about Virtual Chemistry Lab. I am currently investigating it as part of developing an online organic chemistry course with an online/at home lab.