How do you do Chemistry and Physics labs online?
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Look, I’m not saying that there shouldn’t be schools for the hard degrees such as engineering, physics, etc. i.e. Colorado School of Mines.
It’s the lousy social science courses, etc.of study where the cancer establishes itself.
Years ago I took a correspondence course in TV repair. I wasn't interested in going into TV repair, but as part of the course you built a TV set, and the Veterans Administration paid for me to take the course, including the TV set.
I was surprised at how extensive an electronics lab course it turned out to be. Using the stuff they sent me, I did all kinds of electronic experiments that were related to the operation of a TV set.
My undergraduate degree was in physics. I think it would be possible to devise an on-line physics course along the same lines as that TV course, in which you get the things needed to do experiments like those I did in physics lab in college.
As a child I had a chemistry set, and did all the experiments in the manual. I think a chemistry lab course could be developed along the same lines.
In short, I think on-line or correspondence courses could include lab work, but it would take some careful course design. We do have models, such as my TV repair course and children's chemistry sets, to work from.