Techniques for organizing and scoring laboratory works in blended and online automated training
Abstract
Techniques for organizing and scoring laboratory works in blended and online automated training
Incoming article date: 12.08.2015It is very important to use laboratory works in the education process for forming necessary engineering and science student competences. The need for using special equipment or software for organizing these classes is a real challenge in blended and online automated training. The existing techniques for organizing laboratory works using remote laboratories, virtual laboratories and simulators, remote virtual-real laboratories and at-home lab kits in Russia and abroad were observed in the paper. The existing techniques for scoring these works were observed. The blended and online implementation of the laboratory works in class “Design of automated system of data processing and control” was organized in face-to-face education process. The problems working against blended and online implementation of these works were defined and removed. Also the most preferable form of laboratory work implementation was defined. The using of automated laboratory work scoring enabled to reduce the scoring time significantly.
Keywords: laboratory work, online learning, blended learning, face-to-face learning, automated training, automated scoring, scoring technique, massive open online course, virtual laboratory, remote laboratory, learning efficiency, simulator, at-home lab kit