Title :
Online labs in Portugal: (pt.)lab2go
Author :
Restivo, Maria Teresa ; Cardoso, Alberto
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Eng., Univ. of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Abstract :
The role of laboratory experiments is fundamental in engineering education instruction. The use of Information Technologies enhances different possibilities and much interest has been generated around online labs, allowing students, technicians and engineers to interact with online experiments in higher education, in lifelong education, in industrial training, in industrial activities or even in making available very sophisticated equipment or new resources for developing countries. The Portuguese version of lab2go web platform, pt.lab2go, is a consortium recently created for fostering the national potential in online labs.
Keywords :
educational technology; engineering education; further education; Portugal; engineering education instruction; higher education; industrial activities; industrial training; information technologies; laboratory experiments; online labs; Educational institutions; Engineering education; Laboratories; Training; Web pages; computer experiments; haptics interface; lab2go; online labs; virtual reality;
Conference_Titel :
Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL), 2012 15th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Villach
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2425-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2426-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICL.2012.6402123
