Remote Access to Instrumental Analysis for Distance Education in Science
Remote access to experiments offers distance educators another tool to integrate a strong laboratory component within a science course. Since virtually all modern chemical instrumental analysis in industry now use devices operated by a computer interface, remote control of instrumentation is not onl...
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Athabasca University Press
2005-11-01
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| author | Dietmar Kennepohl Jit Baran Mike Connors Kieron Quigley Ron Currie |
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| description | Remote access to experiments offers distance educators another tool to integrate a strong laboratory component within a science course. Since virtually all modern chemical instrumental analysis in industry now use devices operated by a computer interface, remote control of instrumentation is not only relatively facile, it enhances students’ opportunity to learn the subject matter and be exposed to “real world” contents. Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) and Athabasca University are developing teaching laboratories based on the control of analytical instruments in real-time via an Internet connection. Students perform real-time analysis using equipment, methods, and skills that are common to modern analytical laboratories (or sophisticated teaching laboratories). Students obtain real results using real substances to arrive at real conclusions, just as they would if they were in a physical laboratory with the equipment; this approach allows students to access to conduct instrumental science experiments, thus providing them with an advantageous route to upgrade their laboratory skills while learning at a distance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-df3cb1c7868a4a7cb16e881b99db7b6d2022-12-21T20:37:47ZengAthabasca University PressInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning1492-38312005-11-0163Remote Access to Instrumental Analysis for Distance Education in ScienceDietmar KennepohlJit BaranMike ConnorsKieron QuigleyRon CurrieRemote access to experiments offers distance educators another tool to integrate a strong laboratory component within a science course. Since virtually all modern chemical instrumental analysis in industry now use devices operated by a computer interface, remote control of instrumentation is not only relatively facile, it enhances students’ opportunity to learn the subject matter and be exposed to “real world” contents. Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) and Athabasca University are developing teaching laboratories based on the control of analytical instruments in real-time via an Internet connection. Students perform real-time analysis using equipment, methods, and skills that are common to modern analytical laboratories (or sophisticated teaching laboratories). Students obtain real results using real substances to arrive at real conclusions, just as they would if they were in a physical laboratory with the equipment; this approach allows students to access to conduct instrumental science experiments, thus providing them with an advantageous route to upgrade their laboratory skills while learning at a distance.http://www.irrodl.org/content/v6.3/kennepohl.htmlremote experimentchemistrydistance education |
| spellingShingle | Dietmar Kennepohl Jit Baran Mike Connors Kieron Quigley Ron Currie Remote Access to Instrumental Analysis for Distance Education in Science International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning remote experiment chemistry distance education |
| title | Remote Access to Instrumental Analysis for Distance Education in Science |
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| title_short | Remote Access to Instrumental Analysis for Distance Education in Science |
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