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By allowing students to experience and learn from science in our interactive laboratory, their imagination will be fired by safe experiments, fun scenarios, and ever-growing knowledge. All the equipment they require is on hand, and often a virtual lab assistant is standing by to help.

Studying from home, or classroom, Labster's interactive teaching lab provides a safe learning environment that is easy to interact with, innovative in design and follows a personalized path through the sciences.

After using Labster virtual labs, student retention increased from 80% to 95%

After using Labster virtual labs, student retention increased from 80% to 95%

The Labster Advantage

By giving students the chance to develop and practice theories and experiments in a realistic virtual science lab, your lessons will give them all the necessary requirements to feel inspired and pass their exams. Costing far less than a real lab, Labster provides the means for students to understand difficult concepts, and get ready for the real-life wet lab.

Improves student retention and outcomes

Unlimited access to instrumentation

Convenient laboratory access

Integrates with your LMS

Easy tracking of progress & feedback

Fun and engaging 3D animations

Suitable for course re-designs

Dedicated customer support

Aligns with core science curriculum

01. In order to visualize complicated concepts in action

Let students see the processes in action so the learning really embeds itself. See theories come to life and science happening at the molecular level with our 3D animations.

02. To revise prior learning

Your students naturally retain different knowledge and these virtual lab experiences will ensure everyone has a good grounding on the topic before moving to the assessment phase. Save time and resources by asking students to complete simulations in their independent study time.

03. As a pre-lab exercise

Labster can be used as an exercise to teach students the safety measures, techniques, and procedures that will be required before they undertake a real-life lab experiment. This can be particularly useful if the experiment is complex or new to the students.

04. To provide lab work to courses with no existing laboratory

For students in courses that lack a lab component due to time restraints, a lack of resources, or for other reasons, using Labster can majorly enhance their learning.

05. Students complete learning remotely

In unreliable times, 1000s of teachers have relied on Labster to support students who are learning at home. Labster’s quizzes help teachers to record and track students’ academic progress so they can initiate individual coaching when needed. Assessments can also contribute to an overall class participation grade

06. As a post-lab exercise

Virtual labs can be used following a lab experiment to help students reflect upon and analyse their results. This can be helpful to ensure that students internalise the tools and skills that they have learned.

6 ways to use virtual labs

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Get free access to our Lab Safety virtual laboratory, which is one of 219 different virtual learning simulations available today.

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Read the Educational Whitepaper for Virtual Laboratories in Science

This whitepaper looks at the importance of change in science education. It discusses the advantages of virtual laboratories, while also addressing the perceived disadvantages of their use. In the whitepaper, we discuss current research that evaluates the effectiveness of virtual labs, while also bringing first-hand accounts from educators who include the use of virtual labs in their syllabus.

We discuss:

The challenges in science education today
How the use of virtual labs can improve science education
The skepticism surrounding the use of virtual labs
A meta-analysis of the current research on the effectiveness of virtual labs

"The majority of students perceived that the simulations improved their learning of DNA-based technologies, students were motivated to complete the simulation and felt more confident at the end.”

Dr. Bina Rai Singapore University of Technology & Design

"One way to make science more attractive is to make it real. And for me, one thing that Labster does really well is to make it real and fun. Labster brings both humor and relevance, as well as real life context to science education.”

Dr. Ana Barral National University, California

Dr. Sabine Matallana-Surget

"Simulations present concepts in a more intuitive and less abstract way by providing a dynamic representation of chemical reactions or mechanisms at a molecular level.”

Dr. Sabine Matallana-Surget Stirling University, Scotland

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