This site is a work in progress, where I am thrashing out the thinking around what it means to do pedagogically-driven, sustainable, large-scale active learning that involves apparatus and experiments. Spoiler alert: it involves online alternatives such as remote laboratories, virtual laboratories, and simulations that together are called Non-Traditional Practical Work. Even if you have lots of teaching laboratory space, you still need this stuff in your near-future life, because it lets you do stuff no physical lab can do. Interested in the details? Want to contribute? Great – read on …
- What’s the problem?
- The Medium is the Message
- How long do we have?
- Predicting change
- Dimensions of a solution
- Pedagogy
- Practicality
- Sustainability
- Non-Traditional Practical Work
- Simulated Laboratories
- Virtual Laboratories
- Remote laboratories
- Home Experiment Kits – Oh HEcK no?
- Implemention
- Criticisms
- Criticism: touch
- Further benefits
- Interactive micro-spaces
- Thanks
- References