Further benefits

Improve connection between on- and off-campus students Enhance playfulness of campus environment Demonstrate research outputs on-campus, or off. Engage with schools and colleges Engage with sponsors and donors

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How long do we have?

1888 – founded (20 years after School of Engineering at University of Edinburgh) Interim years: Kodak moves from dry-plate to film, and from B&W to colour, both early, anticipating future markets. Result = 90% market share. 1975 Steve Sasson demonstrates digital image capture (details: 3.6kg, 23seconds, 0.01MP). “That’s cute but don’t tell anyone about it” […]

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Criticism: touch

Psycho-motor skills just one of thirteen goals of a laboratory experience (Feisel, 2005) A mixture of traditional labs and NTPW is optimum (Herodotou, 2019) Educational outcomes from NTPW equal or better than traditional labs (Brinson, 2015) NTPW advantages include affordances not possible in traditional labs (Nolen, 2018)

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Criticisms

But I want to touch it! Scaling of Artisanal productions Widening participation in low bandwidth areas Is streaming video a profligate use of energy?

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