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• DOI: 10.18178/ijiet.2022.12.2.1598
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Effectiveness of Virtual Laboratories in Science Education: A Meta-Analysis

• Marc Lancer Santos , M. Prudente
• Published in International Journal of… 2022
• Education, Computer Science

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Home ⇛ international journal of multidisciplinary: applied business and education research ⇛ vol. 2 no. 11 (2021), development of virtual laboratory simulation: e-scilab on waves for grade 7 science.

John Tongco | Wesley Clarke Silvederio | Pamela Joy Salanawon | Justine Mercado

Virtual Laboratory Simulation (VLS) enhances student understanding, retention of concepts, and promotes active learning through direct visualization and manipulation of computer animations. This study aimed to develop a VLS with complementary manual for Grade 7 physics that can be utilized by the teachers to address the needs of the students in the new normal learning. The developed VLS is composed of a Teacher’s Instructional Manual and Student’s Learning Manual. The study used Research and Development approach with the ADD (Analysis, Design, and Development) model as the instructional method. These allows the researchers to analyze the need of VLS, identify the design of VLS, and develop the VLS. The VLS was evaluated based on the content quality with a mean of 4.68, technical quality with 4.65, and instructional quality with 4.57. The results for the complementary activity manual in terms of the content quality is a mean of 4.62, the technical quality with 4.54, and the instructional quality with 4.55. The result showed that the developed VLS together with the complementary activity manual satisfied the quality components and attained the intended standards. It is recommended that evaluation of the effectiveness of VLS through pilot tests in public and private schools.

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Design and implementation of a virtual laboratory for physics subjects in moroccan universities.

1. Introduction

2. online scientific experimentations and laboratories, 2.1. the potential of online experimentation to ensure sustainability for science education, 2.2. related work.

• Implementing a virtual laboratory is a low-cost solution, no equipment is needed for performing the experimentations, all the development work and the implementation are done by the computer;
• Deploying the virtual laboratory resources is guaranteed through using a Moodle platform;
• Performing practical activities through a virtual laboratory is a cheap and sustainable solution;
• Increasing the learners’ motivation and their ability to self-study;
• Accessing the virtual laboratory by learners is allowed at all times and places; also, it supports the learners’ simultaneous connections, which means that multiple learners can do the same experiment at the same time.

3. Materials and Methods

3.1. analysis, 3.2. design, 3.3. development.

• The teaser presented the background, objectives, and the different parts of the practical activity;
• Laboratory video showed the hands-on activity performed in the physical laboratory with real materials and equipment;
• Theoretical resources offered a summary of the theoretical course and focused on the parts concerning the practical activity;
• MCQs provided learners the possibility to do a self-assessment of laws and equations presented in the theoretical course, which will be used in the practical activity;
• Simulation files included the experimental protocol, and the operating mode, for providing a laboratory working environment like to the real one;
• Assessment activity or the simulation report presented the tasks and exercises that the learner should answer during and after performing the practical activity.

3.4. Implementation

3.5. evaluation, 4. case study: the virtual practical activity of the prism, 4.1. optical prism, 4.2. the virtual practical activity of the prism.

• Investigation 1: study of the path of a light ray by a prism and the determination of prism equations.
• Investigation 2: study of the deviation by a prism and the determination of the minimum angle of deviation (Dm).
• Investigation 3: study of the dispersion of light by a prism.

4.3. The Sequence of Carrying Out a Virtual Practical Activity

4.4. the learner activities tracking, 5. results and discussion, 5.1. the developed virtual laboratory, 5.2. learner satisfaction, 5.3. teachers’ opinions.

• Developing and adding other virtual activities to cover the entire physics course;
• Adapting and adjusting the simulations for the smartphone’s screen;
• Updating the platform to the new version of Moodle;
• Improving the platform ergonomics;
• Diversifying disciplines;
• Generalizing and formalizing the experience in an institutional way.

6. Conclusions

Author contributions, institutional review board statement, informed consent statement, data availability statement, acknowledgments, conflicts of interest.

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El Kharki, K.; Berrada, K.; Burgos, D. Design and Implementation of a Virtual Laboratory for Physics Subjects in Moroccan Universities. Sustainability 2021 , 13 , 3711. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13073711

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El Kharki, Khadija, Khalid Berrada, and Daniel Burgos. 2021. "Design and Implementation of a Virtual Laboratory for Physics Subjects in Moroccan Universities" Sustainability 13, no. 7: 3711. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13073711

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EFFECTIVENESS OF VIRTUAL LABORATORY AS INNOVATIVE STRATEGY IN IMPROVING STUDENT'S LEARNING OUTCOMES IN PHYSICS THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Background of the Study

People live in an era characterized by the quick development of technology. It has invaded the educational procedure and is providing us with many opportunities to develop and transformed the progress of education vastly. Technology is slowly taking place in teaching and learning process (Stickler et al, 2010). With the advancement of ICT, teaching and learning process provides interactive knowledge environment by using animations and simulations for abstract topic, where students become vigorous in their learning and provide opportunities for students to construct and understand difficult concepts more simply especially in science subjects. There is no doubt that today everyone intuitively believes that multi-media technology can be fruitfully used to ease the process of acquiring new experiences and skills and at the same time opens up numerous opportunities to experiment with new knowledge.

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