web lab project full details
Champion:
Trevor Collins
Senior Research Fellow
Participant(s):Peter Whalley, Kevin Quick and Ben Hawkridge
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Web Lab
Calibrate, and provide a context for networked simulation environments
Web Lab is an attempt to calibrate, and provide a context for, networked simulation environments. Shared, web based activities are used to complement and extend classroom science, allowing resources that could not be made available in the classroom or lab to be directly controlled and monitored through a basic browser interface. This means that shared planning, execution and documenting of the experiments can involve students and teachers in several schools.
The control problems of distant sensors systems soon become apparent with Heronsgate School's Mars Buggy environment. As does the important idea of program generalizabilty- the same program that works in the classroom maze also works on Mars (temporarily located in the KMi). Other lab environments currently being developed include the ultra low speed wind tunnel and the web leaf
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Mouromtsev, D. and d'Aquin, M.E. (2016). Open Data for Education: Linked, Shared, and Reusable Data for Teaching and Learning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 9500. Springer. https://oro.open.ac.uk/46308/.
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