LabShare: Towards a National Approach to Laboratory Sharing
Conventional undergraduate engineering laboratories are valuable in terms of their contributions to students learning but are costly to develop and maintain and have extremely low utilisation rates. These issues can be addressed through cross-institutional sharing of laboratories; however this is li...
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The School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Adelaide
2009
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| author | Lowe, D. Murray, S. Weber, L. de la Villefromoy, M. Johnston, A. Lindsay, Euan Nageswaran, W. Nafalski, A. |
| author2 | Dr Colin Kestell |
| author_facet | Dr Colin Kestell Lowe, D. Murray, S. Weber, L. de la Villefromoy, M. Johnston, A. Lindsay, Euan Nageswaran, W. Nafalski, A. |
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| description | Conventional undergraduate engineering laboratories are valuable in terms of their contributions to students learning but are costly to develop and maintain and have extremely low utilisation rates. These issues can be addressed through cross-institutional sharing of laboratories; however this is limited by the overarching requirement that students are located in a centrally located laboratory. In this paper we describe the nature of the challenges and the potential benefits that can be achieved if a solution can be found. A possible solution is the use of remote laboratories that can be accessed across the internet with a suitable model for laboratory sharing that promotes both institutional and individual engagement. We describe the characteristics that such a model should have. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-121402022-12-09T05:23:41Z LabShare: Towards a National Approach to Laboratory Sharing Lowe, D. Murray, S. Weber, L. de la Villefromoy, M. Johnston, A. Lindsay, Euan Nageswaran, W. Nafalski, A. Dr Colin Kestell Dr Steven Grainger Prof John Cheung Conventional undergraduate engineering laboratories are valuable in terms of their contributions to students learning but are costly to develop and maintain and have extremely low utilisation rates. These issues can be addressed through cross-institutional sharing of laboratories; however this is limited by the overarching requirement that students are located in a centrally located laboratory. In this paper we describe the nature of the challenges and the potential benefits that can be achieved if a solution can be found. A possible solution is the use of remote laboratories that can be accessed across the internet with a suitable model for laboratory sharing that promotes both institutional and individual engagement. We describe the characteristics that such a model should have. 2009 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12140 The School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Adelaide fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Lowe, D. Murray, S. Weber, L. de la Villefromoy, M. Johnston, A. Lindsay, Euan Nageswaran, W. Nafalski, A. LabShare: Towards a National Approach to Laboratory Sharing |
| title | LabShare: Towards a National Approach to Laboratory Sharing |
| title_full | LabShare: Towards a National Approach to Laboratory Sharing |
| title_fullStr | LabShare: Towards a National Approach to Laboratory Sharing |
| title_full_unstemmed | LabShare: Towards a National Approach to Laboratory Sharing |
| title_short | LabShare: Towards a National Approach to Laboratory Sharing |
| title_sort | labshare: towards a national approach to laboratory sharing |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12140 |