ReLOAD: Real laboratories operated at a distance

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 331-341

  Hanson, Ben ^a   Culmer, Peter ^b   Gallagher, Justin ^b   Page, Kate ^b   Read, Elizabeth ^c   Weightman, Andrew ^b   Levesley, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaborative learning; Distance learning; Engineering; Personalized e learning

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED GRADING; CHARACTERISTIC PROPERTIES; COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; DISTANCE LEARNING; DYNAMIC EXPERIMENT; EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES; FOCUS GROUPS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; ONLINE SURVEYS; PEDAGOGICAL METHOD; PERSONALIZED E-LEARNING; REMOTE ACCESS; REMOTE LABORATORIES; REMOTE LABS; REMOTE OPERATION; SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES;

E-LEARNING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; INTEROPERABILITY; LABORATORIES; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 79959826981     PISSN: 19391382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TLT.2009.35     Document Type: Article

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