The materials posted contain 39 online research laboratory experiences in psychology. To access these materials, individuals will need to enroll in a CANVAS open enrollment course. They can self-enroll using the URL: https://canvas.instructure.com/enroll/NEG43M. Alternatively, they can sign up at https://canvas.instructure.com/register and use the following join code: NEG43M. Enrollment provides guest access. When enrolling, a pseudonym can be used and is, in fact, encouraged.
The "course" contains 40 modules. In addition to the overview provided in this module a second module contains resources associated with the lab exercises. The PowerPoints are somewhat rough and anyone who wishes to download and revise is welcome to do so. The other 39 modules contain online lab exercises. The label of the module that is in parentheses is what the participant sees, whereas the other label is more descriptive and is only seen by the instructor. Two of the files in each of these modules is a description of the online exercise. One is a narrative description of the research and theory associated with the lab exercise as well as questions that could be used with students. The other is a PowerPoint that recreates the online exercise. The third entry in each module is a link that provides access to the exercise through the University of Central Florida's Center for Distributed Learning.
The purpose of making the POPUP modules available is for educational purposes, not research. Persons participating in the modules are anonymous. The data file associated with each module will be made available on request. The file contains all responses of those using the guest access up until the time of the request. The data of individual participants or groups of participants cannot be identified in this preview of the POPUP modules. The primary objective of University of Central Florida's (UCF) Pilot Online Project in Undergraduate Psychology (POPUP) is to incorporate innovative and research based web-enhancements in the form of on-line laboratory experiences. Laboratory education ideally engages students in all phases of the scientific process in exploring psychological phenomena. Students pose questions, review the research literature addressing these questions, plan empirical investigations to answer the questions, use scientific tools to gather data, analyze and interpret the data, and communicate the results. The objective of POPUP is to provide high quality scientific education in on-line laboratories that will engage students in all these activities. It should be noted that some of the lab exercises are classic experiments and could be used for illustrative purposes rather than to teach research methods. Another important note is that the studies included in the exercises were not chosen because they were exemplary in the research design. Several of the studies were intentionally chosen because the findings were contested in the research literature. This was to allow students the opportunity to suggest improvements and refinements to eliminate alternative explanations. The online modules were programmed using ActionScript 3 and are in the process of conversion to HTML. These modules are incorporated into the Materia platform in UCF's Center for Distributed Learning (CDL). With the exception of the actual online lab exercise, all materials posted in this course can be downloaded and used without permission. Please provide comments, suggestions, and notice of problems (e.g., broken links) by emailing rdipboye@knights.ucf.edu
Thank you, Robert L. Dipboye, Professor Emeritus, Psychology, University of Central Florida
