Impact of remote experimentation, interactivity and platform effectiveness on laboratory learning outcomes.

ABSTRACT: Access and personalized instruction required for laboratory education can be highly compromised due to regulatory constraints in times such as COVID-19 pandemic or resource shortages at other times. This directly impacts the student engagement and immersion that are necessary for conceptual and procedural understanding for scientific experimentation. While online and remote laboratories have potential to address the aforementioned challenges, theoretical perspectives of laboratory learning outcomes are critical to enhance their impact and are sparsely examined in the literature. Using Transactional Distance Theory (TDT), this paper addresses the gap through a case study on Universal Testing Machine (UTM). By comparing physical (PL-UTM) and remotely triggerable (RT-UTM) laboratory platforms

SUBMITTER: Achuthan K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8263093 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature