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An Academic Laboratory Safety Course Outline

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Reviewed:: Apr 16, 2022 by Teacher Education

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Overview:

This comprehensive course is designed to help learners to develop the skills, knowledge, and attitude of learners in higher educational institutions of science, engineering, and technology. The outline of this paper is planned for use as an elective course for graduate-level classes. This course highlights the vital principles and essential concepts of academic laboratory safety and provides applications of these aspects in laboratory and research practice. It begins with an introduction to laboratory safety, proceeds to fire safety principles and management, then to academic laboratory environments, and finally concluding with a study of technical safety aspects. Apart from the books mentioned in the outline, the course also incorporates various review articles, research papers, PowerPoint presentations, case studies, and safety videos.

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Recommended Uses:

The material can be used in different teaching procudures. Instructors may assign some reading material and have class discussions. This can count as homework assingment as well. The students can also be engaged in different solo or group work activities within lab practice.

Technical Requirements:

The reviewers received an error message when trying to access the documents.
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Identify Major Learning Goals:

The author states, learners will "develop the skills, knowledge, and attitude of learners in higher educational institutions of science, engineering, and technology".
The purpose is to highlight the vital principles and essential concepts of academic laboratory safety and provide applications of these aspects in laboratory and research practice.

Target Student Population:

Graduate-level
Science-related majors

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

ability to read html files
ability to read pdf files
ability to navigate WWW and downloadable content
Science concepts

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By reading some of the abstracts, I can see all users will be highly benefitted by exploring the content of each article. For example, they can learn about photoacoustic harmony among different chemical reactions.

The material includes content for advanced-level study.
Pre-requisite knowledge and skills (i.e., technical terms, science content)
Valid concepts and models included.

Concerns:

The linked content provides leads to The Chemical Educator, a cost-based online journal.
Free content was not located.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

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The main learning objective is to help learners to develop the skills, knowledge, and attitude of learners in higher educational institutions of science, engineering, and technology. After interacting with the material, the students are expected to develop comprehension of the different experiments and results from each research paper report. The material can be used once students have been exposed to related information as part of their subject of study. Target learners should be graduate students specializing in a specific area of chemistry or physics. The material can be integrated in the curriculum following a coherent methodology. Some of the assignments the students can develop are related to lab experiments.

Concerns:

Limited access to this collection is provided via this weblink (i.e., a username and password are required).

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The weblinks are functional.
The description of the collection is clear and concise.
The collection is easy to navigate.
The site is consistent in the presentation of information.

Concerns:

Technical support was not located.
Flexible use is not a strength.
Open use is not a strength.
An accessibility statement was not located.

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