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E-learning is not a new concept to
the American University of Nigeria
(AUN); however, it has always been applied to the lectures but not
in the laboratories for the chemistry courses before and during the
first phase of the COVID-19 lockdown. The sudden disruption of learning
caused by the forced lockdown issued by the government authority in
an attempt to curb the spread of the pandemic left most institutions
of learning with unfinished syllabi as it occurred in the middle of
the spring semester. Although some universities attempted to provide
students with the lessons via remote classes, it was not without challenges,
as the issuance met everyone unprepared. Hence, before the resumption
of the Fall 2020 semester, the Petroleum chemistry department of AUN
made it a point of duty to modify lab sessions to wedge against unforeseen
circumstances such as pandemics that can cause an interruption to
physical meetings. Herein we report a hybrid lab implementation in
which physical lab meetings and virtual laboratories were combined
alternately to cover a section of the lab scheme assigned for an analytical
chemistry course. It aided our understanding of student reception
and preference to the different learning styles and provided insight
on alternatives to sustain learning amidst disruptions in normal learning
structure by circumstances like the pandemic.
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