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Want to dive into the topics affecting today’s university lab instructors and students? Check our blog to hear from our team of experts and esteemed guest authors about the latest news, tips, product updates, and more.
Catalyst Celebrates OER Usage and Awareness
A recent report from Bay View Analytics highlights the growth in awareness and usage of open educational resources (OER) at higher education institutions across the United States.
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Labflow and Turnitin: Collaborating to Uphold Academic Integrity in STEM and Lab Courses
Labflow and Turnitin are partnering to take STEM education to a new level.
Tracking course health with Data Insights
Running lab courses takes a lot of work. Lab coordinators and instructors are responsible for administering a course, often to hundreds or thousands of students.
Why we’re measuring grading time at Labflow
Knowing how long it takes Teaching Assistants (TAs) to grade their students' work is a critical part of any laboratory course.
6 Benefits to Using Labflow Reports
Catalyst Education has a four-year history of helping science departments modernize their lab instruction into the 21st century using Labflow, our powerful learning platform, combined with our unrivaled scientist-led faculty support.
Custom Lab Manual Publishing: Our Best-of-Breed Program
Catalyst Education has a four-year history of helping science departments modernize their lab instruction into the 21st century using Labflow, our powerful learning platform, combined with our unrivaled scientist-led faculty support.
Using Big Data to Assess Student Lab Skills in Labflow
The teaching laboratory is an important component of a comprehensive science education program in chemistry, biology, and physics.
Visual Data: Student Attitudes and Experience
What do you do when students are unable to come to the lab?
Catalyst Celebrates OER Usage and Awareness
A recent report from Bay View Analytics highlights the growth in awareness and usage of open educational resources (OER) at higher education institutions across the United States.
Labflow Satisfaction Survey: What Are Students Saying?
Here at Catalyst, our team is committed to ensuring that Labflow works well for instructors, TAs, and students alike.
Effective Methods to Mitigate Cheating
I speak with faculty constantly, and the acceleration of cheating comes up in most of those conversations. The difficult part is that most people—and plagiarism detection solutions—are focused solely on catching students when they cheat…
Labflow Animations: Our Commitment to Accessibility
While inclusive design guidelines for illustrations are clear, designing in 3D—especially with animated movement—poses unique challenges…
Accelerating Research in Lab Education
I recently presented at ACS Spring 2022 to share a preview of the work we’re doing here at Catalyst. Joined by Caitlin Zumalt, one of our stellar Faculty Success Managers, we discussed how Labflow can help accelerate research in laboratory education…
Easing Financial Pressures for Lab Courses
After visiting with dozens of department heads throughout my career, I’ve found that many are under financial pressures and looking to deliver lab courses at a reduced cost to the department...
Increase Your Department’s Research Throughput
Throughout my career, I’ve been to more than 100 different universities to visit with science-teaching faculty and give department presentations. I hear a common refrain from department heads and faculty: Lab TAs spend too much time grading lab reports instead of doing research…
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