Wednesday 11 December 2013

‘iLabs’ offer a new way to add science experiments to online education

by Bjorn Carey, Stanford


The virtual labs are Hesselink’s latest effort to bring advanced laboratories to the masses online, an approach he pioneered in 1996. That first version included several then-new features, such as remote control and scheduling of the lab, chat, faculty support and an electronic notebook. The most recent “lab in a box” generation of iLabs involved automated hardware that students could access through the Internet and control remotely from anywhere in the world. The labs took up only a few cubic feet of space, which significantly lowered operating costs compared to traditional setups.


http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/december/lab-ina-box-120613.html


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