On objectives of instructional laboratories, individual assessment, and use of collaborative remote laboratories

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 263-274

  Gustavsson, Ingvar ^a   Nilsson, Kristian ^a   Zackrisson, Johan ^a   Garcia Zubia, Javier ^b   Hernandez Jayo, Unai ^b   Nafalski, Andrew ^c   Nedic, Zorica ^c   Göl, Özdemir ^c   MacHotka, Jan ^c   Pettersson, Mats I ^a   Lagö, Thomas ^c   Håkansson, Lars ^a  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEUSTO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessment.; Engineering education; Laboratories; Learning objectives; Online learning; Remote laboratories

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT.; FREE ACCESS; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; INSTRUCTIONAL LABORATORIES; INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE; KEY ISSUES; LABORATORY COMPONENTS; LEARNING OBJECTIVES; ONLINE LABORATORY; ONLINE LEARNING; PHYSICAL REALITY; REMOTE LABORATORIES; STUDENT ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY; UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA; VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT SYSTEMS;

ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORIES; STUDENTS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DISTANCE EDUCATION;

EID: 79951734838     PISSN: 19391382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TLT.2009.42     Document Type: Article

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