A Methodology for Organizing Virtual and Remote Laboratories

Virtual and remote laboratories provide access to state-of-the-art science experiments and are capable of providing students with innovative learning opportunities. Such environments can be highly effective in increasing students’ interest in science and their engagement in relevant learning activit...

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Main Authors: Zervas, P., Kalamatianos, A., Tsourlidaki, E., Sotiriou, S., Sampson, Demetrios
Format: Book Chapter
Published: 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36922
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author Zervas, P.
Kalamatianos, A.
Tsourlidaki, E.
Sotiriou, S.
Sampson, Demetrios
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Tsourlidaki, E.
Sotiriou, S.
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description Virtual and remote laboratories provide access to state-of-the-art science experiments and are capable of providing students with innovative learning opportunities. Such environments can be highly effective in increasing students’ interest in science and their engagement in relevant learning activities. In order to increase the findability of available virtual and remote laboratories, we propose their storage and organization into web-based repositories. To this end, this chapter aims: (a) to take stock of the current landscape of available repositories of virtual and remote laboratories and identify common metadata elements, (b) to propose a methodology for organizing virtual and remote laboratories by exploiting common metadata elements from existing repositories and (c) to introduce the concept of big ideas of science for classifying virtual and remote laboratories based on fundamental ideas of the real world.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-369222017-09-13T15:17:39Z A Methodology for Organizing Virtual and Remote Laboratories Zervas, P. Kalamatianos, A. Tsourlidaki, E. Sotiriou, S. Sampson, Demetrios Virtual and remote laboratories provide access to state-of-the-art science experiments and are capable of providing students with innovative learning opportunities. Such environments can be highly effective in increasing students’ interest in science and their engagement in relevant learning activities. In order to increase the findability of available virtual and remote laboratories, we propose their storage and organization into web-based repositories. To this end, this chapter aims: (a) to take stock of the current landscape of available repositories of virtual and remote laboratories and identify common metadata elements, (b) to propose a methodology for organizing virtual and remote laboratories by exploiting common metadata elements from existing repositories and (c) to introduce the concept of big ideas of science for classifying virtual and remote laboratories based on fundamental ideas of the real world. 2014 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36922 10.1007/978-3-319-02264-2_15 restricted
spellingShingle Zervas, P.
Kalamatianos, A.
Tsourlidaki, E.
Sotiriou, S.
Sampson, Demetrios
A Methodology for Organizing Virtual and Remote Laboratories
title A Methodology for Organizing Virtual and Remote Laboratories
title_full A Methodology for Organizing Virtual and Remote Laboratories
title_fullStr A Methodology for Organizing Virtual and Remote Laboratories
title_full_unstemmed A Methodology for Organizing Virtual and Remote Laboratories
title_short A Methodology for Organizing Virtual and Remote Laboratories
title_sort methodology for organizing virtual and remote laboratories
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36922