E-laboratory is a revolutionary technologic way in the field of science laboratories through which the student is accustomed to computers not only as a means of calculation or information storage but as a laboratory tool used for measurement and control. Moreover, it becomes a tool to study and clarify the experiments and their relation to theory so the student can understand the meaning of conducting practical experiment while doing them post COVID. The student can use the e-lab as a means to conclude the laws through real measurements during the experiments.
Therefore, e-lab serves as a tool to understand and convince through viewing, experimentation and conclusion.
E-laboratories aim to provide practical experiments closer to reality.
The programs are presented in two-or-three dimensional forms accompanied by sound, image and movement.
Their environments/components are modifiable and controllable. They offer a great deal of interaction between the student and the electronic environment and enable more than one person to navigate in the lab and interact with others.
E-Labs already exists before COVID-19-pandemic.
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Victor Tubosun Babalola This laboratory offers remote control of real-world physics experiments through the Internet. to deliver pricey experiments that a school or institution cannot afford. As a result, e-lab is a free, accessible, remotely controlled laboratory that can be accessed by anybody who has a computer with internet connection.
@ Ajit Singh, thanks for your contribution. What is the difference if there is any in the relationship between e-library and normal library and the e-laboratory and the normal laboratory?
@Fatemeh khozaei, can we now agreed that e-lab is cost effective compare to face-to-face lab? Apart from this, what are other advantages of e-lab over Face-to-face lab. If you own a school, which one would you prefer?
I agree with the response of Fatemeh Khozaei. E - laboratory is better, and with more advantages especially in difficult situation.
Virtual Labs is an educational simulation environment that allows students to complete lab experiments online and explore concepts and theories without entering a real science lab.
Students can experience lab techniques for the first time and become more familiar with advanced laboratory equipment that may be inaccessible because of its high price or risk.
Through animation, students can explore the life sciences at the molecular level and look inside the machines they operate.
Virtual lab programs create opportunities for alternative access to science education, and virtual sites are applications of virtual reality technology
Prof. Victor Tubosun Babalola
eLabs are remote lab stations, designed to provide students undergoing laboratories courses with an ease-of-use remote lab. I will unquote * for your thread a definition for the Monterrey Tech in Mexico.
* "eLabs allows each student to have a unique experience of each laboratory practice set up by the teacher of each course and allows for the student to perform several tasks, measurements ând analyses to real exp. setups without the need for the student to actually be in front of it since the student has full access to the lab through the World Wide Web"
* http://elab.mty.itesm.mx/
Best Regards.
Victor Tubosun Babalola E labs is a very nice and arevolutionary idea as well and when it comes to the technology it is the way in the field of science laboratories through which the students are well versed with the computers and the technology.
Although it was created before the events of Covid 19, it was implemented after the beginning of the pandemic. I consider it a handy tool when I have controls for user identification.
e-laboratory is a process of accessing laboratory activities/practices online, this might be as a result of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown but, now become recent innovation in learning as new normal.