Title
Complementing Education Via Virtual Labs: Implementation And Deployment Of Remote Laboratories And Usage Analysis In South Indian Villages
Abstract
ICT-enabled virtual and remote labs have become a platform augmenting user engagement in blended education scenarios enhancing University education in rural India. A novel trend is the use of remote laboratories as learning and teaching tools in classrooms and elsewhere. This paper reports case studies based on our deployment of 20 web-based virtual labs with more than 170+ online experiments in Biotechnology and Biomedical engineering discipline with content for undergraduate and postgraduate education. Via hands-on workshops and direct feedback using questionnaires, we studied the role of remote lab experiments as learning and teaching tools. Although less reliable than direct feedback, we also included online feedback to perceive blended and remote learning styles among various users. Student and teacher user groups suggested significant usage adaptability of experimental process and indicated usage of remote labs as supplementary tools for complementing laboratory education. Usage analysis implicated the role of online labs as interactive textbooks augmenting student interaction and positive correlates to learning.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.3991/ijoe.v12i03.5391
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ONLINE ENGINEERING
Keywords
Field
DocType
Virtual lab, Blended learning, Direct feedback, Neurophysiology, Biophysics, Bio-inspired robotics, ICT, Remote labs, Hands-on workshops
Adaptability,Software deployment,Usage analysis,Virtual lab,User engagement,Information and Communications Technology,Engineering,Direct feedback,Blended learning,Multimedia
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
3
1868-1646
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.51
0
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shyam Diwakar14418.20
Dhanush Kumar2124.01
rakhi radhamani3154.31
hemalatha sasidharakurup4153.30
Nijin Nizar5113.64
Krishnashree Achuthan66824.70
Prema Nedungadi73313.10
Raghu Raman8299.66
Bipin Nair92614.21