Online Labs in Portugal

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2012

Authors

Maria Teresa Restivo (Author) FEUP; Alberto Cardoso (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: 41st International Conference in Engineering Pedagogy

IGIP Annual Conference

Villach, Austria, 26-28 September, 2012

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology

CORDIS: Technological sciences

Other information

Abstract (EN): The role of laboratory experiments is fundamental in engineering education instruction. The use of IT’s enhances different possibilities and much interest has been generated around online labs, allowing students, technicians and engineers to interact with online experiments in higher education, in lifelong education, in industrial training, in industrial activities or even in making available very sophisticated equipment or new resources for developing countries. The Portuguese version of lab2go web platform, pt.lab2go, is a consortium recently created for fostering the national potential in online labs.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific