Remote laboratories extending access to science and engineering curricular

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 342-353

  Cooper, Martyn ^a   Ferreira, José M M ^b,c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c Buskerud College of Engineering   (Norway)

Author keywords

Information interfaces and representation (HCI); User centered design; Virtual labs

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY BARRIERS; COST BENEFITS; CURRENT STATUS; DESIGN DECISIONS; INFORMATION INTERFACES; INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNS; KEY TOPICS; KEYPOINTS; LEARNING OBJECTIVES; OPEN UNIVERSITIES; PEDAGOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; PORTUGAL; REMOTE EXPERIMENTS; REMOTE LABORATORIES; REMOTE LABS; SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING; UNITED KINGDOM; USER CENTERED DESIGNS; VIRTUAL LAB;

DESIGN; LABORATORIES; TEACHING;

DISTANCE EDUCATION;

EID: 79956367922     PISSN: 19391382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TLT.2009.43     Document Type: Article

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