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LabPaq Advantages
Hands-On Labs (HOL) is an educator owned company that is passionate about supporting science education. To make rigorous, academic quality science experimentation affordable to students, HOL primarily sells its LabPaqs at wholesale prices directly to students via its website. This ensures the delivery of timely and complete materials as well as eliminates additional mark-ups by third party distributors.
Advantages to Students
Tens of thousands of students have used LabPaqs to fulfill the requirements of accredited College and High School science courses. The majority of those students, especially those taking science courses online, recognized that the flexibility, convenience, plus time and transportation savings more than offset the cost of the LabPaq. Specific advantages to students include:
- Saving $50 to $100+ from not having to purchase a lab manual since the price of a LabPaq includes a lab manual.
- Saving payments related to standard campus lab fees.
- Saving the various expenses associated with traveling to and from campus including, gasoline, tolls, parking fees, insurance, etc.
- Saving time commuting to and from campus for lab sessions.
- Saving money on child care, if applicable.
- Enjoying the convenience of being able to do science lab work almost anywhere and anytime.
- Enjoying the opportunity to earn full time or part time income and not lose wages from having to miss work for campus-based lab sessions.
- Avoiding scheduling issues which can include:
- Campus-based lab schedules that conflict with personal and work demands.
- Limited time allocation of campus-based lab sessions that often require students to leave before they have completed an experiment or fully understood its concepts.
- Limited class selections and availability of campus-based lab science courses due to institutional budget cuts.
- Limited institutional laboratory space and scheduling issues that require students to work in teams of 4 to 6 people and minimize students’ opportunities to actually perform experiments and learn from tactile experiences.
- Campus-based lab schedules that conflict with personal and work demands.
Advantages to Educators:
Most institutions and instructors also realize a variety of advantages and savings by adopting LabPaqs for both their online and on-campus science courses:
- Save money by not having to invest in materials and equipment for multiple science disciplines.
- Save money by eliminating the time needed to order, manage, and distribute materials and equipment.
- Save money by eliminating and/or reducing instructor or technicians’ time to set up, monitor, and clean-up after laboratory sessions.
- Save money by reducing the insurance coverage and state safety audit requirements associated with the potential safety hazards of using and storing large volumes of hazardous chemicals and biological specimens.
- Save space by eliminating the need to store science equipment and supply inventories.
- Save instructors’ travel time and provide the convenience of not having to commute to campus-based lab sessions.
- Reduce or eliminate the need to build additional, brick and mortar science laboratory facilities.
