scholarly journals Development of Online Virtual Laboratory Platform for Supporting Real Laboratory Experiments in Multi Domains

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 548
Author(s):  
Mohamed Elsayed Ahmed ◽  
Shinobu Hasegawa
Keyword(s):  
Educational Technology ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Virtual Laboratory ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Ict In Education ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Technology Application ◽  
Scientific Images ◽  
Virtual Laboratories ◽  
University Instructors

The increasing use of online virtual laboratories (OVLs) in educational institutions as a recent educational technology application necessitates developing a new educational platform for assisting instructors in using such technology in the teaching process without web programming obstacles. The OVLs are online environments that provide students with several types of content such as simulations, videos, scientific images, and infographics related to real laboratory experiments. This article proposes a unified online virtual laboratory platform (OVLP) to support instructors who teach real laboratory experiments in multi-domains. To evaluate the proposed platform, five university instructors and five experts of ICT in education have participated in this study. The data were collected using online questionnaires for both specialists, respectively. Regarding the results, they confirm that the proposed platform is acceptable for teaching real laboratory experiments, especially in the tested domains.

scholarly journals Virtual Laboratory: A Boon to the Mechanical Engineering Education During Covid-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
pp. 234763112097075
Author(s):  
N. Kapilan ◽  
P. Vidhya ◽  
Xiao-Zhi Gao
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Virtual Laboratory ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Laboratory Facilities ◽  
Virtual Laboratories ◽  
Laboratory Training ◽  
Academic Year

The engineering students understand the engineering concepts effectively when they conduct the experiments in the laboratory. Hence, laboratory is as important as theory; however, the ill-equipped laboratory facilities affect the students’ learnability. The virtual laboratories may help the students overcome the problems faced by them in the conventional laboratory. In India, educational activities during the middle of the semester were affected due to lockdown related to COVID-19. However, the theory classes were conducted online, and educational institutions are finding it difficult to complete the laboratory experiments due to closure of colleges for the students due to COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, we have conducted a faculty development programme for the engineering college faculty members on mechanical engineering virtual laboratories. Similarly, we have trained the mechanical engineering students on fluid mechanics virtual laboratory. We have taken feedback from the participants of these virtual laboratory training programme and analysed it. From the analysis we have observed that more than 90 per cent of the participants were happy about the virtual laboratory and they expressed that their learning process improved with virtual laboratory experiments. Also, they felt that the virtual laboratories can be used till the COVID-19 pandemic issues are solved. Since the vaccine for COVID-19 is not available yet, the virtual laboratories will help the mechanical engineering students to conduct the laboratory experiments for the academic year 2020–2021.

scholarly journals ASSESSING PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ RECEPTION AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS VIRTUAL LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS IN LIFE SCIENCES

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (6A) ◽  
pp. 1092-1105
Author(s):  
Mafor Penn ◽  
Lydia Mavuru
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Virtual Laboratory ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Inquiry Based Learning ◽  
Virtual Laboratories ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Learning Interventions

This research reports the assessment of pre-service teachers’ reception and attitudes towards virtual laboratory experiments in Life Sciences with the aim of advancing adaptability to digital learning. Using sequential mixed-methods in a quasi-experimental design, 68 pre-service teachers in the 3rd year of a Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) program were surveyed before and after virtual learning interventions. This phase was followed by qualitative data gathering using focus group interviews with all participants. Findings from quantitative data analysis revealed a positive significant difference in pre-service teachers’ attitudes towards virtual laboratory experiments post learning interventions. From qualitative data pre-service teachers found the progression from using only traditional to including virtual experiments was useful in enhancing their conceptual understandings of Life Sciences concepts, convenience, inquiry-based learning, self-directed and autonomous learning. However, pre-service teachers noted that using virtual laboratories did not significantly develop their science process skills and as a result could not replace the experiences in a traditional biology laboratory. The implications of these findings project virtual laboratories as a supporting tool for experimentation in Life Sciences especially within and post the COVID-19 pandemic where issues of social distancing pose a threat to collaborative and inquiry-based science learning. Recommendations from these findings are discussed herein. Keywords: inquiry-based learning, life sciences, pre-service teachers, virtual laboratory experiments

Opportunities in Virtual Laboratory Experiments in the Teaching and Learning Process

2021 ◽  
pp. 227-245
Author(s):  
Kapilan N. ◽  
Rana Pratap Reddy ◽  
Vidhya P.
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Virtual Laboratory ◽  
Laboratory Facilities ◽  
Virtual Laboratories ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Government

The teaching and learning process in the laboratory is different from theory classes. The students get better knowledge and understanding of the concept when they perform experiments in the laboratory. The hands-on practice will help the students to remember the concept. However, the lack of facilities and limitations in the laboratory infrastructure may affect the student learning process. In India, few technical institutions lack adequate laboratory facilities, and hence, the government of India has started a new initiative called the virtual laboratory to overcome this issue. The Government of India provided funding to the premier institutions in India to establish virtual laboratory facilities to help the institutions which do not have sophisticated laboratory facilities. The advancement in IT and internet facilities helps this initiative. In this chapter, basics of virtual laboratories, different types of virtual laboratories, impact of virtual laboratories in students learning process, opportunities, and limitations of the virtual laboratories were discussed.

Towards the semi-automatic adaptation of simulated virtual laboratory experiments

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athanasios Sypsas ◽  
Dimitris Kalles
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
System Model ◽  
Virtual Laboratory ◽  
Activity Diagrams ◽  
Virtual Laboratories ◽  
Automatic Adaptation ◽  
Special Category ◽  
Real World Problems

Since real-world problems are complex a system model is usually required in advance to be built for such a problem to be properly investigated. Virtual laboratories constitute a special category of simulations and are based on models of physical laboratories and the experimental processes carried out therein. Similar experiments can be adapted to suit various learners’ needs if they can be transformed to satisfy the expected learning outcomes for each audience. We compare such experimental procedures using the Activity Diagrams which correspond to these experiments, in order to detect differences between them. These differences are, then, used for the required transformation of the experimental steps. The algorithm implemented uses a uses a BFS-like traversal to detect the differences between Activity Diagrams. The evaluation of the distance between the Activity Diagrams is carried out by the user and the possible needed transformation is decided to meet the learning outcomes in the educational environment selected by the user, educator or learner.

scholarly journals ELECTRONIC EVALUATION IN TEACHING CLASS: ASSESSMENT VALUE OF EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
Dragana Stanojević ◽  
Zoran Stanković ◽  
Jelena Maksimović
Keyword(s):  
Educational Technology ◽  
Educational Software ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Ict In Education ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Electronic Education ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

As a result of the expansion of informatics era, in the last decade is a noticeable focus on the development and application of ICT in education, which, thanks to its rapid development marks the era of electronic education. The goal of electronic education is actually a modernization of the teaching process, which will enable teachers the reduction of teaching duties, simplify preparation and teaching and testing students' knowledge, which with the electronic platform is becoming an important component of a multimedia approach to teaching. The main objective of this work is to draw attention to the general pedagogical expert and scientific public and to point to a wider range of options provided by this type of evaluation in the educational process, and it is already at the level of teaching classroom. In this sense, in the paper, in addition to theoretical considerations are presented and acquired experience from practice,  resulting from implementation assessments potential of created educational software, as well as the experience of using modern educational technology.  

scholarly journals Evaluation Methods in Teaching Translation by Saudi University Instructors under Coronavirus Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 33-46
Author(s):  
Eman Mohammad Mahmoud AlOneen
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
Evaluation Methods ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Simple Observation ◽  
Assessment Tasks ◽  
University Instructors ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual

Coronavirus pandemic has posed challenges in evaluating students’ performance in educational institutions all over the world. Therefore, university instructors may encounter some problems in evaluating their students fairly through online teaching since it was not an easy task before this worldly crisis. The current study aims at investigating the perspectives of instructors who teach translation courses at some Saudi universities towards the followed evaluation methods in teaching translation courses during Coronavirus pandemic. Two methods were used to collect data: simple observation and online questionnaire. The participants were 21 instructors from 10 Saudi universities. The findings of this study show that using machine translation and CAT tools by students in doing assessment tasks does not guarantee fairness among students during Coronavirus pandemic regardless of the nature of translation courses. In addition, online exams and assignments are less fair to show the individual differences among students compared with written exams before Coronavirus pandemic. To evaluate students’ performance in translation courses fairly, the participants of this study suggested some solutions such as modifying questions' patterns of some translation exams and assignments to cope with online teaching, emphasizing the importance of live sessions and online participation as assessment tasks for students during Coronavirus pandemic, using other evaluation methods such as live oral assessment, editing texts, multiple choice editing questions, etc. The study concludes with some recommendations for future research.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF DEVELOPMENT NEEDS VIRTUAL LABORATORY FOR LEARNING VOCATIONAL SCHOOL PRACTICES IN THE PANDEMIC TIME COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eskawati Musyarofah Bunyamin ◽  
Eveline Siregar Siregar ◽  
Dwi Kusumawardani Kusumawardani
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Vocational School ◽  
Virtual Laboratory ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
School Practices ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Need Analysis ◽  
Virtual Laboratories ◽  
Face To Face Learning ◽  
Open Face

During the COVID-19 pandemic, schools did not open face-to-face learning services. The Ministry of Education and Culture has issued a policy learning from Home (BDR) to support the principles of the Education Policy in the COVID-19 Pandemic that the health and safety of students, educators, education personnel, families, and the community is the top priority. However, learning in Vocational School (SMK) is mostly based on practice so that BDR activities cannot be implemented. One thing that is done to overcome this is that some practicum activities can be executed using multimedia known as virtual laboratories. The aim of this study is to conduct a need analysis for the development of a virtual laboratory.  Needs analysis is carried out to gather data about gaps and needs as well profiles of students that can be used as a basis or reference in developing virtual laboratory at the next stage. Data collection was carried out by means of observation, interviews, and distributing questionnaires. The results showed that a virtual laboratory was needed to support practical learning for vocational students.

scholarly journals Editorial 32(4): An argument for research significance

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Henderson ◽  
Eva Heinrich ◽  
Chwee Beng Lee
Keyword(s):  
Educational Technology ◽  
Technology Application ◽  
Technology Practice

A recurring theme in the criticism of research relating to educational technology is that the field is swamped by descriptive studies. This work often does not provide for generalisation to population or theory, and rarely adds to our understanding of how the educational technology application or practices can be understood in terms of other contexts. Arguably, it is not sufficient to simply demonstrate that an effect was observed in response to an educational technology practice. There is an onus on researchers to consider how their findings are significant beyond the confines of their study.

scholarly journals Representações Quantitativas em Laboratórios Virtuais para o Ensino de Química

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-159
Author(s):  
Alessandro Félix Pascoin ◽  
José Wilson P Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Virtual Laboratory ◽  
Virtual Labs ◽  
Chemistry Teaching ◽  
Virtual Laboratories ◽  
Peircean Semiotics ◽  
Quantitative Nature

Resumo Os laboratórios virtuais utilizados no ensino de Química se constituem importantes recursos didáticos para o avanço dos processos de ensino e aprendizagem, ao passo que podem contribuir para ações de mediação na construção do conhecimento. A presente pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar as representações quantitativas que estão presentes nas interfaces de laboratórios virtuais à luz da Semiótica Peirceana. É uma pesquisa qualitativa exploratória, realizada no repositório portal PhET–Interative Simulation. No percurso da pesquisa foram encontrados 51 aplicativos, desses seis exibiam características de laboratório virtual e três foram semioticamente analisados. Os resultados indicam que três laboratórios apresentam disposições parcialmente satisfatórias nas representações quantitativas que abordam. Esses podem vir a contribuir para o fortalecimento do ensino da Química, por meio de ilustrações, simulações e a participação interativa do estudante. Quanto às possibilidades, esses oferecem diferentes ambientes, formatos e modelos para o estudo desta ciência. Também foram encontradas limitações como a insuficiência de signos iconográficos de ordem quantitativa considerados indispensáveis na conjuntura conceitual de determinados tópicos da Química. As indicações desta pesquisa são para se pensar a respeito dos signos que vão representar a natureza quantitativa da Química, transformando os desafios em possibilidades para os processos de ensino e aprendizagem desta ciência. Palavras-chave: Semiótica. Ensino de Química. Laboratórios Virtuais. Abstract Virtual laboratories used in chemistry teaching are important didactic resources for the advancement of teaching and learning processes, while they can contribute to mediation actions in the knowledge construction. This research aims to analyze the quantitative representations that are present in the virtual laboratories interfaces in light of Peircean semiotics. It is an exploratory qualitative research, conducted at the portal PhET – Interative Simulation. During the research, 51 applications were found, of these, 6 exhibited virtual laboratory characteristics and three were semiotically analyzed. The results indicate that three laboratories have partially satisfactory arrangements in the quantitative representations they address. They can contribute to the strengthening of chemistry teaching through illustrations, simulations and interactive student participation. As for the possibilities they offer different environments, formats and models for the study of this science. Limitations were also found as the insufficiency of quantitative iconographic signs considered indispensable in the conceptual conjuncture of certain topics of chemistry. The indications of this research are to think about the signs that will represent the Chemistry quantitative nature, turning the challenges into possibilities for the teaching and learning processes of this science. Keywords: Semiotics. Chemistry Teaching. Virtual Labs.

scholarly journals Proses dan Teknik Supervisi

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahma Juita
Keyword(s):  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Supervision Process ◽  
Educational Supervision ◽  
The World ◽  
Differences Of Opinion ◽  
Process Supervision

In the world of education the name of the supervision of education has long been known by people or has long been known, which is meant by the supervision of education is not far from the problem of improvement regarding the problem of education in the learning and teaching process. However, in its discussion, the supervision of education is more about the differences of opinion, so because of differences in opinions there will be many differences in their implementation. In the process of developing supervisory education supervision in higher education it is demanded to better understand what is in the supervision of education in order to be more optimal in the practice of compilation in the learning process or improve, learn and teach, therefore supervisors must be more can help and have good skills.This educational supervision process is part of the activities carried out in the supervision of education. In this process what has been seen is what goals in the learning and teaching process, supervision techniques are ways to achieve certain goals, both related to the solution of the problems of the teachers in the learning and teaching process, the problem of the principal in developing safety and other issues related to and oriented to improving the quality of education. The process and technique of educational supervision is necessary and very important to be applied and applied properly and correctly in educational institutions, because in the second case it will also discuss the quality of schools.

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