Abstract
Online STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education needs online labs - the same way as classical education at schools need access to real laboratories, because various technical skills and prowesses can be effectively achieved only by putting theory into practice. There are series of open online labs available today, especially thanks to fast ICT (Information and Communications Technology) growth and innovations provided by many universities. Nevertheless integration of online labs into education systems occurs sporadically. Article aims to map the current integration options, give some existing examples and analyze how it would be possible to start the integration of online labs on a global scale.
Highlights
The reason for the need of laboratories in education is primarily the need of activity of students themselves
Because of using these standardized and hosted IT instruments, it was relatively easy to develop these systems as web applications from the very beginning and that’s why they have been deployed on the Internet massively
Due to its technological differences, remote labs usually arose as separate projects, but in the future we can expect their integration into educational systems so as to provide students with a comprehensive and profound learning experience
Summary
The reason for the need of laboratories in education is primarily the need of activity of students themselves. The teacher does not drown students in pile of organized facts in this teaching strategy but provides them with only the most necessary resources, he/she only serves as a mentor during their independent research This experiment driven methodology is proving successful from a long-term point of view while being more enjoyable for students, [3, 4, 5]. The technological core of the educational system is primarily based on data model in a relational database management system, on file storage (with educational media) and on an application framework Because of using these standardized and hosted IT instruments, it was relatively easy to develop these systems as web applications from the very beginning and that’s why they have been deployed on the Internet massively. Due to its technological differences, remote labs usually arose as separate projects, but in the future we can expect their integration into educational systems so as to provide students with a comprehensive and profound learning experience
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