I am looking into e-learning and virtual labs as alternatives to face-to-face teaching of lab techniques in natural sciences. Looking for people to give their opinion and share previous experiences they might have.
I only know moodle that is friendly an easy to use. Also is open source. We used this platform at Univeristy of Buenos Aires.
(Moodle.org: open-source community-based tools for learning
https://moodle.org)
+1 for Moodle (at least version 2). We use it extensively at the University of Bath
Thanks! But have you used it specifically for natural sciences and wet-lab alternatives? Could you add some links to content examples?
We used for discussion some topics, to include the lectures in the web and to solved students´s doubts when we are teaching Microbiology.
I think moodle is very suitable for every course content and more this platform is in open source. Programming with moodle is very pleasant
Hello
@André: We have used moodle to support the wet-lab activities. Please check out the following proceedings paper:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225076633_PRE-SERVICE_TEACHERS_IDEAS_OF_COLLABORATIVE_WORK_WHEN_USING_A_WIKI_TO_CONSTRUCT_A_LAB_NOTEBOOK?ev=prf_pub
I know that in FEUP José Ferreira has been investigating the use of virtual labs to teach engineering related topics. You may want to check it out.
Ana
Conference Paper PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS IDEAS OF COLLABORATIVE WORK WHEN USING ...
Hola! e-learning platforms that are good in my experience as student: Blackboard (http://www.blackboard.com/) and Edmodo (http://www.edmodo.com/), they are friendly and easy to use. We used them for read articles, send homeworks, discuss some topics and take tests in Blackboard.
I only know the virtual laboratory from University of Utah (http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/), is a good tool for learning genetics and molecular biology.
I started working with a Japanese platform WebELS DESIGNED to students in Ph-D, it is very pleasant. It has two modes: e-learning and e-meeting.
It's e-meeting module provides a good synchronization of slides of the course or conference with the video. I invite you to try especially since it is open source.
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