The Educational Application Of Virtual Laboratories In Archaeometry

Sypsas, Athanasios; Kiourt, Chairi; Paxinou, Evgenia; Zafeiropoulos, Vasilis; Kalles, Dimitris

doi:10.4018/ijcmhs.2019010101

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“…The procedure is divided into steps and for each step a written instruction appears at the top of the screen, as shown in Fig. 1 (Paxinou et al, 2019). In case the user cannot complete a step, a written hint appears to his help.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Results indicated that students were helped to overcome several common misconceptions about diffusion and osmosis. Finally, another study combined the guided and the open inquiry approach (Paxinou et al, 2019). At first, 31 out of 67 undergraduate students used the Instruction mode (guided learning) of the virtual lab (the Onlabs software, http://onlabs.eap.gr), as shown in Figure 1.…”

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“…Such an environment is a virtual laboratory, where learners conduct experiments, collect experimental data and develop new understandings through observing and manipulating conditions in a virtual environment (Jong, Linn, & Zacharia, 2013). Virtual laboratories give the user the opportunity to conduct the same scientific inquiry provided by hands-on experiments but with the advantages of the virtual environment (Sypsas, Kiourt, Paxinou, Zafeiropoulos, & Kalles, 2019;Toth, Ludvico, & Morrow, 2014) As a result, virtual laboratories provide science teachers with educational tools which support the inquiry based learning approach (i.e. reality adaptation, as virtual experiments designers can highlight noticeable information, remove insignificant details and modify model characteristics leading to the deeper understanding of certain phenomena).…”

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Reviewing inquiry-based learning approaches in virtual laboratory environment for science education

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Εκπαιδευτικές προσεγγίσεις διερευνητικής μάθησης σε περιβάλλον εικονικού εργαστηρίου για την εκπαίδευση επιστημών Reviewing inquiry-based learning approaches in virtual laboratory environment for science education Abstract In science education, students' active involvement in experimental procedures contributes to higher performance achievements compared to traditional lecturing, as laboratories play a key role and help learners develop the necessary skills of inquiry. Inquiry-based learning, a learning method based on students' personal involvement in the cognitive process through searching, querying and posing questions, is an educational approach where in the case of research, the learner formulates hypotheses which tests them via experimentation and observation of the experimental results. The educational value of the inquiry learning method has been verified in several studies, where the application of the inquiry learning approach resulted in more effective learning, compared to traditional teacher-centered methods. The evolution of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) contributed towards the popularity of the inquiry-based learning, since it supports the development of educational approaches and environments which facilitate the inquiry learning process. Virtual reality laboratories give the user the opportunity to conduct the same scientific inquiry provided by hands-on experiments but with the advantages of the virtual environment. The present study focuses on the identification of the inquiry-based learning applications and methods used based on virtual laboratories in the field of science. The peer-reviewed literature was the main source of information and data. The findings of the reviewed studies indicated that virtual labs, when used in combination with handson labs in inquiry learning, support learners and help them gain deeper conceptual understanding of science.

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“…The absence of laboratory equipment made the practice of learning hard to be executed. (Sypsas, Kiourt, Paxinou, Zafeiropoulos, & Kalles, 2019) All teacher respondents stated that the subject matter included difficult material since hard to find the visualization. In the delivery, there are also obstacles, the difficulty of understanding students at each stage of digestive organs because the process occurs in inner human organs.…”

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Need Analysis of Audio-Visual Media Development to Teach Science Materials for Young Learners

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This qualitative study aims to obtain an overview of the current situation of instructional media use, and learning media needs formulation in science teaching process in junior high school by understanding their accessibility potential by knowledge, types of media used, and to state their perceptions to adopt media in science teaching on the static electricity and digestive system materials. The participants are 20 teachers and students in three junior high schools around Surakarta. The data were collected through two parts of electronic questionnaire during the odd semester of 2019/2020 academic year. The results indicated that 1) the current instructional media use in the science learning process has not been carried out optimally since they have the convenience of choosing and using variations of media. 2) There are challenges in the material delivery of abstract, conceptual, and procedural materials since the teacher needs a media to visualize the process and explain it correctly in and so that students have detail conceptions about the process. 3) There is a need for learning media to be developed in science learning, especially in form of audiovisual media. This result can be a consideration in developing science learning media for junior high school.

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“…Virtual Reality (VR) is a cutting edge emerging technology that the last decades demonstrates a great potential to change and modernize the way learners are trained in handson skills in many fields such as medical, engineering, natural sciences, etc. [6,29,44,49,57,60]. Makransky and Lilleholt [35] mention that many business analyses and reports (e.g., Belini et al [3], Greenlight & RoadToVR [17]) predicted that VR would be the biggest future computing platform of all time as it could revolutionize the entertainment, gaming and education industries.…”

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Virtual reality-based instruction is becoming an important resource to improve learning outcomes and communicate handson skills in science laboratory courses. Our study attempts first to investigate whether a Markov chain model can predict the students' performance in conducting an experiment and whether simulations improve learner achievement in handling lab equipment and conducting science experiments in physical labs. In the present study, three cohorts of graduate students are trained on a microscopy experiment using different teaching methodologies. The effectiveness of the teaching strategies is evaluated by observing the sequences of students' actions, while engaging in the microscopy experiment in real-lab situations. The students' ability in performing the science experiment is estimated by sequential analysis using a Markov chain model. According to the Markov chain analysis, the students who are trained via a virtual reality software exhibit a higher probability to perform the steps of the experiment without difficulty and without assistance than their fellow students who attend more traditional training scenarios. Our study indicates that a Markov chain model is a powerful tool that can lead to a dynamic evaluation of the students' performance in science experiments by tracing the students' knowledge states and by predicting their innate abilities.

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The Educational Application Of Virtual Laboratories In Archaeometry

Cited by 8 publications

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Reviewing inquiry-based learning approaches in virtual laboratory environment for science education

Reviewing inquiry-based learning approaches in virtual laboratory environment for science education

Need Analysis of Audio-Visual Media Development to Teach Science Materials for Young Learners

Analyzing Sequence Data with Markov Chain Models in Scientific Experiments

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