Abstract
Virtual laboratory is becoming one of the most significant educational technologies due to financial challenges which often required construction of physical laboratories, particularly in educational institutions in developing countries. This paper presents an integrated virtual environment to help individual learners to enhance the practical learning of chemistry fundamentals. Through this environment, the learner will navigate, visualize and simulate a real laboratory environment and its associated processes. The proposed laboratory interface and curriculum were tested on students to measure their satisfaction with the quality of developed laboratory. The results of the evaluation showed a positive response effect on the students’ satisfaction.
Highlights
There is a major growth in the usage of technology to support learning in the last several years
An alternative learning environment could be found in the adaptation of virtual laboratory technology, which will simulate a real laboratory environment and processes [5]
This paper examines the development of a Virtual Chemistry Laboratory (VCL) where the learner will navigate, visualize and simulate a real laboratory environment and processes
Summary
There is a major growth in the usage of technology to support learning in the last several years. An alternative learning environment could be found in the adaptation of virtual laboratory technology, which will simulate a real laboratory environment and processes [5] This kind of interactive technology brings many advantages. These advantages include, the possibility of making virtual practical experimentation accessible by students who cannot physically attend the actual laboratory for any reason [6], simulating dangerous experiments that require careful handling of incendiary or toxic chemical materials without riskiness students or others, strengthening students’ ability of exploration and independent knowledge, and providing students a high level of continuous lifetime learning, where they might need to repeat the experiment as many times to grasp the concepts well. This paper examines the development of a Virtual Chemistry Laboratory (VCL) where the learner will navigate, visualize and simulate a real laboratory environment and processes.
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