Experiences Developing Online Lab Courses Delivered Using Moodle

The experiences of developing an on-line course in Plant Biology are presented. This course was originally delivered face-to-face. Over the last two years, the course has evolved from face-to-face to being a hybrid to being fully on-line, including the lab activities. Currently, the lab activities are done by students at home using a commercial lab kit which is supplemented with on-line images and discussion using Moodle. Experiences included developing the course materials including customizing a lab kit involved considerations of materials available in the tropics in the islands of the Western Pacific.