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Welcome
to Teaching Quality Assurance and Quality Control in the College
Laboratory, a web-based module. We developed this module in
response to the bioscience industry standards that require
employees to know how to run a safe lab, maintain accurate
documentation and use well-designed processes. Thesestandards
help ensure that quality products are generated in a safe
environment. During the four years we have been teaching biotechnology
at Austin Community College, we have found that the best way
to teach the standards of quality assurance (QA) and quality
control (QC) is two-fold. First, we present the principles
and then we embed them into the student labs. This is the
approach we have taken in this on-line module.
We
have divided this module into six sections. Section I is an
introduction to the module, including ways it may be used
by both teachers and their students. Section II is a teaching
module that covers the principles of QA and QC in seven chapters
with assessments. In section III, case studies show how important
QA and QC are to the industry. Section IV is a virtual tour
of a company in Austin called Ambion. Section V gives ways
to incorporate QA and QC into the college lab, and section
VI has downloadable assessments and other supplementary materials.
We recommend that the module be completed sequentially.
