Transforming Science Education for Lifelong Learning and Opportunity
Transforming Science Education for Lifelong Learning and Opportunity
Discover how LabXchange, an initiative from Harvard University supported by the Amgen Foundation, is transforming access to science education. With free, high-quality content, interactive experiments, and global collaboration tools, LabXchange helps learners and educators around the world engage deeply with science.
Welcome to Lab Exchange, an open online platform for learning and engaging with science, brought to you by Harvard University.
When you really want to engage with science, it's often difficult to find high quality resources, scientific communities, and team-based approaches to solving real world problems.
Lab Exchange has been designed to overcome these difficulties and make science more accessible to learners, educators and researchers around the world.
How will Lab Exchange do this? On the platform, you'll find world-class content from a variety of sources, which have been unbundled into a reusable library that includes videos, assessments and readings.
The platform will also bring the scientific process to life by offering virtual experiments that let you discover and perform a range of scientific methods.
And more than that, the platform lets you personalize your learning by mixing and matching what you have chosen into custom learning pathways. You'll then be able to share your learning pathways as well as add your own contributions to the library.
As you share feedback, Lab Exchange allows you to build new and meaningful connections with other people in the scientific community. By helping you learn, share information and discover creative solutions.
Lab Exchange also supports the United Nations sustainable development goals on good health and well-being and quality education.
By giving you access to engaging scientific content, vibrant learning communities and a global perspective, Lab Exchange inspires the next generation to build exciting careers in science and tackle the world's challenges together.
Lab Exchange, science and learning connected.
Made possible by the Amgen Foundation and Harvard University, LabXchange is a new online platform that will allow anyone, anywhere to experience science. By creating an online community for learning, sharing and collaboration, LabXchange is set to transform science education by fostering lifelong learning and opportunity for all.
Developed at Harvard as the brainchild of Robert Lue, a professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and through the support of the Amgen Foundation, this free online science education platform provides students around the world with access to personalized instruction, next-generation virtual lab experiences and networking opportunities across the global, scientific community. In short, the aim is to create a digital platform for the best possible science learning experience.
Given that millions of students do not have access to high-quality science education and experiences, LabXchange ensures that students everywhere have equal opportunity to prepare for and be successful in science. Whether due to economic or geographic limitations, too many students in secondary and undergraduate education systems lack opportunities to engage meaningfully in the scientific process. Globally, this has led to clear and significant gaps in diversity across scientific fields and in scientific literacy overall.
The solutions to humanity’s biggest challenges—from global health crises, to environmental issues such as climate change and plastic in the oceans—will be tackled by future scientists.
Caring for others demands a fundamental understanding of the science behind our health, whether you’re nursing a sick child, or collaborating with multiple organizations to tackle a global challenge such as a rapidly aging population.
By connecting individuals and organizations on this learning and sharing platform, LabXchange will enable them to drive change around such global challenges as well as inspire the next generation of scientists.
Watch the video above to learn more and visit LabXchange at www.LabXchange.org.