Laboratories play a crucial role in the education of future scientists and engineers, yet there
is disagreement among science and engineering educators about whether and which types …

Laboratory-based courses play a critical role in scientific education. Automation is changing
the nature of these laboratories, and there is a long-running debate about the value of hands …

A large-scale, multi-year, randomized study compared learning activities and outcomes for
hands-on, remotely-operated, and simulation-based educational laboratories in an …

The effectiveness of traditional face to face labs versus non-traditional online, remote, or
distance labs is difficult to assess due to the lack of continuity in the literature between …

Teachers use remote labs and simulations to augment or even replace hands-on science
learning. We compared undergraduate students' experiences with a remote lab and a …

Three key issues should be addressed to enable universities to deliver engineers who have
a solid documented laboratory experience enabling them to design goods and services …

This review presents the first attempt to synthesize recent (post-2005) empirical studies that
focus on directly comparing learning outcome achievement using traditional lab (TL; hands …

Current technology has the capacity for affording a virtual experience that challenges the
notion of a teaching laboratory for undergraduate science and engineering students …

Background This study compares students' perceptions of key cognitive processes and
specific content afforded by an industrially situated virtual laboratory project and two …

With recent advances in information technologies, a new mode of laboratory known as the
“virtual laboratory” has begun to revolutionise engineering education. This development has …