{"id":773,"date":"2018-01-17T23:38:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T23:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/chemistry1labs\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=773"},"modified":"2018-01-17T23:38:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T23:38:05","slug":"about-this-course","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/chemistry1labs\/chapter\/about-this-course\/","title":{"raw":"About This Course","rendered":"About This Course"},"content":{"raw":"<p align=\"left\">This lab manual accompanies the college chemistry courses and is used to support and assess knowledge acquired in the classroom setting to be applied in the real world. Labs include activities such as measuring the density of a sucrose solution, calculating the percent composition, stoichiometry, determining limiting reactants and more to complement an introductory chemistry course.<\/p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">This lab manual was developed by Jessica Garber Morales at Tidewater Community College.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2>About Lumen<\/h2>\r\nLumen Learning\u2019s mission is to make great learning opportunities available to all students, regardless of socioeconomic background.\r\n\r\nWe do this by using open educational resources (OER) to create well-designed and low-cost course materials that replace expensive textbooks. Because learning is about more than affordability and access, we also apply learning science insights and efficacy research to develop learning activities that are engineered to improve subject mastery, course completion and retention.\r\n\r\nIf you\u2019d like to connect with us to learn more about adopting this course, please\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contact Us<\/a>.\r\n\r\nYou can also <a href=\"https:\/\/calendly.com\/lumenlearning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">make an appointment<\/a>\u00a0for <a href=\"http:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/office-hours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OER Office Hours<\/a> to connect virtually with a live Lumen expert about any question you may have.","rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This lab manual accompanies the college chemistry courses and is used to support and assess knowledge acquired in the classroom setting to be applied in the real world. 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