Delivery of Remote Laboratory Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Literature Review

The strict lockdowns implemented around the world consequently result in the quick transition to emergency remote learning in most Universities. Vulnerable professors in the higher education community are puzzled about how to continue the delivery of laboratory work in their science courses. Published studies are available online that can share the fusion of technology and strategies to make the delivery of remote laboratory work possible. These studies can serve as a guide and basis for designing a remote laboratory work model to be employed in the field of emergency remote learning. This need has led the researchers to do a narrative review on delivering remote laboratory work in the universities. Following the set of inclusion and exclusion criteria, 7 studies in Europe, 6 in America, and 3 in Asia conducted from March 2020 to March 2022 have qualified for this study. Studies were obtained from the databases of ERIC, ScienceDirect, and JSTOR. Remote laboratory work was made possible through online and home-based delivery modes. The integration of social, cognitive, and teaching presences in the pre-laboratory phase, laboratory phase, and post-laboratory phase provided support to distant students for them to feel that they belong to a learning community leading to quality interaction with peers and their instructor.