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Narayanan, Soumya; Sarin, Pradeep; Pawar, Nitin; Murthy, Sahana – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions.] We present the pedagogical design and implementation of "ESSENCe": Experimental problem solving using Staging, Scaffolding, Embedded information sources, iNstruments, and Collaboration. Research in experimental physics requires…
Descriptors: Research Skills, Skill Development, Physics, Science Experiments
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Bandyopadhyay, Subhajit; Roy, Saswata – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
This paper describes an inexpensive experiment to determine the carbonyl stretching frequency of an organic keto compound in its ground state and first electronic excited state. The experiment is simple to execute, clarifies some of the fundamental concepts of spectroscopy, and is appropriate for a basic spectroscopy laboratory course. The…
Descriptors: Science Experiments, Spectroscopy, Science Instruction, College Science
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Raman, Raghu; Achuthan, Krishnashree; Nedungadi, Prema; Diwakar, Shyam; Bose, Ranjan – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2014
Virtual Labs (VLAB) is a multi-institutional Open Educational Resources (OER) initiative, exclusively focused on lab experiments for engineering education. This project envisages building a large OER repository, containing over 1650 virtual experiments mapped to the engineering curriculum. The introduction of VLAB is a paradigm shift in an…
Descriptors: Laboratory Experiments, Engineering Education, Educational Technology, Educational Innovation