ERIC Number: EJ1306676
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 9
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ISSN: ISSN-0036-8555
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Remote Labs 2.0 to the Rescue: Doing Science in a Pandemic
Jiang, Rundong; Li, Chenglu; Huang, Xudong; Sung, Shannon; Xie, Charles
Science Teacher, v88 n6 p63-71 Jul-Aug 2021
Telelab, an implementation of remote labs 2.0, is open-source and freely available for non-commercial use. The platform consists of sensors that collect data, smartphone apps that transmit data and videos from anywhere, and a web app that provides a user interface to view, analyze, and control remote experiments. Based on this platform, any science teacher can broadcast their own experiments to any number of students, who will not only observe the experiments unfold over a livestream of images but also receive real-time sensor data for independent analyses. The platform also allows teachers to record experiments along with sensor data and upload them to a repository, so students who miss the live sessions can also catch up by working with these prerecorded experiments. As a video- and data-streaming platform, Telelab allows teachers to conduct experiments in the same way they would in a physical classroom under normal circumstances, which paves the way for a comfortable transition to remote labs. In this article, the authors demonstrate how Telelab can assist remote teaching with three common examples. For all the examples, a low-cost infrared (IR) thermal camera is used as a high-throughput sensor to collect large quantities of temperature data in real time.
Descriptors: Distance Education, Science Instruction, COVID-19, Pandemics, Electronic Learning, Curriculum Implementation, Science Experiments, Instructional Effectiveness
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: 2054079; 2131097