OLAREX: Initiating Secondary Schools Teachers Into Online Labs Experience For Teaching

During the last years teaching has evolved and has become more than traditional hands on learning. To follow this trend the usage of alternative and new teaching methods is mandatory. Online labs open up opportunities for rather new teaching methods that gain an important role in educational trends....

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inEuropean Conference on e-Learning p. 670
Main Authors Oros, Ramona Georgiana, Pester, Andreas, Dziabenko, Olga
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Kidmore End Academic Conferences International Limited 01.10.2013
Subjects
Core curriculum
Educational Objectives
Experiential Learning
Experiments
Learning
Online instruction
Public speaking
Research Methodology
Secondary school teachers
Social networks
Teaching
Teaching Methods
Austria
Lithuania
Bulgaria
Spain
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:During the last years teaching has evolved and has become more than traditional hands on learning. To follow this trend the usage of alternative and new teaching methods is mandatory. Online labs open up opportunities for rather new teaching methods that gain an important role in educational trends. This applies to secondary school education, higher education, and industrial training. The term of online labs refers to interactive experiments that can be provided over the Internet. These labs can be divided into two groups: virtual laboratories and remote laboratories. Virtual labs are based on software simulations and often used in the field of mathematics and in particular simulations where the practical implementation is too difficult or even impossible to realize due to security reasons. In comparison to virtual labs, remote labs have real hardware and allow users to manipulate it. As laboratory equipment and instruments are becoming increasingly sophisticated and too expensive for universities to purchase or maintain, remote laboratories are a viable option. Within the scope of the OLAREX project teachers from secondary schools were invited to learn more about online labs, their functionalities and usage, and their applicability in the classroom. This paper will look at both, the experience of developers of online labs and the experience of teachers using online labs. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:2048-8637
2048-8645