Access to Remote Laboratories: What are the benefits?
Remote Laboratories allow students to access working experimental hardware from anywhere at any time. This talk will explain the attributes of a typical remote laboratory and demonstrate how one particular experiment located at The University of Queensland is being used by over 1500 students in four states in the USA with little effect on its availability to students in Australia. The talk will also present evidence to show that students who interact remotely with real experimental hardware perform better than those without access to the real experiment. A very short demonstration will be given in the talk, and attendees will be able to work with the experiment in the display outside the seminar area.
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Mark Schulz's Biography
Dr Mark Schulz has worked as a computer consultant in both the UK and in Australia; also for a short time, as a research scientist for the then Australian Atomic Energy Commission at Lucas Heights. Dr Schulz has been on the staff of universities overseas and in Australia, and has been with the University of Queensland since 1987. Since mid 2008 he has been the Associate Director in the research Centre for Educational Innovation and Technology (CEIT) at the University of Queensland. His current research interests are in the areas of remote laboratories, sensor networks and real-time messaging. Dr Schulz works with teams from around the world, and in this context is Chair of the Education group in the Global Online Laboratory Consortium (GOLC). A remote experiment on radiation physics developed at UQ has been heavily used by staff at Northwestern University, Illinois, for training science teachers and over 1,500 high school students across five states. There are plans to raise this to over 5,000 students later this year. |
