This study is devoted to the peculiarities of online education, namely, the use of virtual laboratories. The emphasis is being placed on the development of a laboratory model that can take advantage of the available online courses and adapt them for students with special educational needs. The research describes the learning process in a virtual laboratory, options for integrating online courses, and the ways of presenting them to students with certain educational needs. As a result, a virtual laboratory model was developed; it has been primarily designed for people with hearing and vision impairment, and musculoskeletal disorders. Thus, each user category was submitted several options for the educational process implementation within the virtual laboratory. The theoretical model allows creating a virtual laboratory to teach students with special educational needs. Based on the student experience of using the laboratory, research aimed at searching for new ways of presenting information and improving existing ones could be conducted.
The global pandemic complicated both
learning chemistry and, importantly,
preparation for examinations. One of the problems which students face
is the lack of teachers’ attention, whereas the implementation
of such distance learning technology as a chatbot represents one possible
solution. The Chemist Bot was created specifically to help Russian
students prepare for the final chemistry examination. It provides
various activities, including the access to theory, the opportunity
to complete the real exam tasks, and educational games. Over a period
of three months, 465 students took part in the Chemist Bot activities,
and 52 of them shared their real examination results. It was revealed
that both the completion of exam tasks and participation in extracurricular
activities are helpful for training and preparation. In the present
experiment, it has been shown that 13 of the 15 students who wrote
the full United State Exam (USE) sample in the bot and scored at least
53 out of 66 points in the Chemist Bot then scored over 80 points
on the real USE (which is 80% of the maximum USE score and is considered
excellent by FIPM – Federal Institute of Pedagogical Measurements,
Russian Federation). Currently, the Chemist Bot is involved in preparation
of new participants: those students who are going to pass the exam
in the summer of 2022.
The study aims to reveal the attitude of students and teachers to mobile learning; explore the possibility of developing critical thinking skills in mobile learning; and also evaluate knowledge after a short training course involving the use of mobile technologies in the context of the development of critical thinking. The research relies on an interview and a test. It was attended by 275 people (93 teachers and 182 students). The results showed that 58% of teachers and 55% of students believe that mobile learning does not contribute to the development of critical thinking. The test results showed that the study participants who pre-listened to the course of lectures on their mobile devices did not cope with the questions well enough, and cognitive errors were identified. The research has shown that improving the skills of interpreting, analyzing, evaluating and explaining information can increase the effectiveness of mobile learning. The research is a contribution to the study of various aspects of the impact of mobile learning on students and will be of interest to teachers, students, academic administration, parents, as well as to those who are interested in modern pedagogy and educational psychology.
Diffusion coefficients of Ca(NO 3) 2 in its passage through the set of porous glass membranes at 20-70 o C were determined and discussed in terms of the structuring of the water boundary layers near the silica surface.
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