Internet Teaching: Laboratory Course in Analytical Chemistry

Abstract.

 The enormous potential of the Internet has stimulated the development of new forms of knowledge communication. Special attention was paid to the creation of multimedia teaching material for lab exercises dealing with the most important instrumental methods in Analytical Chemistry. Testing student's knowledge with dynamic documents is a procedure providing great advantages for both students and teachers. The interpretation of measurements by teleconferencing via the Internet provides access to sophisticated research experience. The development of virtual instruments, e.g. a virtual IR spectrometer or gas chromatograph, proved to make lab exercises less prone to accidents. Moreover, it provides animations of processes which may hardly be described in words.