Online labs in Portugal: (pt.)lab2go

Author

Restivo, Maria Teresa ; Cardoso, Alberto

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., Univ. of Porto, Porto, Portugal

fYear

2012

fDate

26-28 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICL.2012.6402123

Filename

6402123