Upcoming Events
Our events feature seasoned educators and Catalyst insiders sharing their insight on enhancing the teaching and learning experience for hands-on lab courses. Be sure to join us to learn about a variety of topics that benefit today’s students, TAs, and instructors.
Time on Task: How user data can be used to estimate the time TAs spend grading and students engage in lab learning activities
Laboratory courses exert various pressures on students, teaching assistants (TAs), and lab instructors throughout the university term. One of the most pressing is the time that needs to be invested by each group to optimize the collective learning experience. Students are expected to meaningfully engage with activities before, during, and after lab in order to get the most out of instruction and experimental inquiry. TAs are asked to manage a steady cadence of grading work to provide regular, high-quality feedback to their students to enhance learning. Lab coordinators and instructors also must find a balance between pedagogically meaningful experiments, time available at the lab bench, and departmental constraints on TA appointments and expectations. However, lab instructors often have to rely on self-reports and post-hoc measures like assessment scores to identify whether there is an imbalance of time in their courses.
Join us as we unveil Labflow’s newest Time On Task feature. Accurate estimations of time on task may provide a crucial missing piece of data for instructors monitoring and reshaping lab learning environments. In this webinar, we will discuss the ways that the lab management software, Labflow, leverages streams of user data to provide valuable estimates of quantities like student engagement and TA grading time. We will conclude with some prototypes of data visualizations that foreground time on task data for instructors.
Labflow and Turnitin: Partnering to Uphold Academic Integrity in STEM
Educators are central to student success, but their days are filled with administrative responsibilities that can take away from time that directly impacts student learning.
Turnitin solutions reduce the burden on teachers while enabling fair and fast evaluation, personalized feedback, and the learning opportunities needed for students to develop original thinking skills. In short, Turnitin helps educators focus on what they do best—teach.
Join us as we unveil Labflow’s authorized partnership with turnitin™. Uniquely built to support STEM education, this partnership upholds academic integrity and promotes ethical science practices in the lab.
Increasing Equity in Labs: Are We Doing Enough?
The unique complexity of lab courses makes it even more difficult to promote equity in STEM education. Join us Friday March 31st to learn how Labflow helps promote equity and increase efficiency in Biology and Chemistry labs.
In this webinar we will discuss:
Why immediate and specific feedback is imperative for lab assignments
How rubrics increase grading consistency, creating more fair and equitable grading.
How allowing multiple attempts on assignments help even the playing field for students of all skill levels
How data collection and analysis can add to equitable course management
How Labflow can solve for these and many more issues
Why providing the tools of the past is no longer enough
BCCE
Catalyst Education will be at Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE).
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Developing Digital Content to Support Student Prep for In-Person Biology Labs
Students have trouble translating written procedures into experimental steps they can carry out in the lab. Labflow is designed with the digital tools students need to get the most out of their in-person lab courses.
Using Digital Tools to Help Students Prepare for In-Person Chemistry Labs
Students are experiencing anxiety as they return and struggle to translate written procedures into actionable experimental steps. Labflow is designed with the digital tools students need to meet “pre-pandemic” standards.
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On Demand Webinars
Missed one of our events or want to watch it again? Access our on-demand webinars to learn how you can enhance your in-person lab course, empower instructors, improve student success, and more.
Using OER Experiments in Your Course
Our OER library has grown to over 100 experiments, and we want to share it with you! Submit the form to access this on-demand webinar and watch Catalyst’s own Jordan Hunter, Elizabeth Crowe, and Dr. Justin Shorb discuss best practices of using OER experiments and visual data in Labflow. You’ll learn how you can meet your learning objectives while saving grading time and lowering costs.
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Experience Labflow
Want to learn how Labflow can help you meet your learning objectives while saving grading time and lowering costs? Simply fill out the form to access our on-demand demo from CEO and founder Dr. James Caras. During this 30-minute Labflow demonstration, you’ll discover how our learning platform wraps online instruction around in-person lab experiments to empower instructors and improve student success. Watch now to find out how Labflow can enhance your hands-on lab course!
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