Successful Integration of Face-to-Face Bootcamp Lab Courses in a Hybrid Online STEM Program.

ABSTRACT: The Microbiology and Cell Science program at the University of Florida compressed two standard 16-week lab courses into five-day versions of the course, which are referred to as bootcamp labs. The bootcamp labs have the same objectives, activities, and assessments as their traditional counterparts. Development of the bootcamp labs was part of a larger effort to increase access to the major, and more broadly STEM, by offering a 2+2 hybrid online transfer program. The results of this mixed-methods study include a direct comparison between bootcamp and traditional lab format as an approach for delivery of a face-to-face lab course. The bootcamp lab cohort has a greater diversity of students, with more women and underrepresented minorities in STEM than the traditional semester-long cohorts. St

SUBMITTER: Ardissone AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6853780 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature