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Realistic context Co-Lab offers the learner a
realistic experimental setting in which learners can design and perform experiments. The experiments are realistic in the sense that they represent real world situations embedded in a realistic context. The experimental
setting can be realized in by means of:
- Computer simulations
, which offer a safe and easy accessible environment in which the learner can freely play around with variables and use multiple representations of the domain under study
- On line experiments
, in which experimental equipment is connected to the learner's computer with which the learner can collect data and manipulate experimental variables
- Remote experiments
, in which experiments are set up in a central place and which learners can access through a web-based interface. Such remote experiments will open the possibility to share expensive and/or
rarely available equipment among schools on a European or world-wide basis
- Video measurements
, where learners can obtain data from measuring moving objects on a sequence of video frames.
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DemonstratorsCo-Lab develops
two demonstrators of collaborative inquiry environments to give examples of the realistic context. The first one is an environment in applied science in the domain of water management The second environment is also
in the applied science domain but then in the domain of climate control (green houses). |
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