Abstract

Over the last decade remote laboratories have emerged as valuable educational resources, providing the potential for improved educational outcomes, student flexibility, richer laboratory experiences, and cross-institutional resource sharing. Recent work has seen the successful establishment of a national laboratory sharing initiative. Whilst successful, the shared laboratories have been limited by a lack of a mechanism for systematically guiding students through laboratory lesson plans that aim to structure their learning. Preliminary work, carried out in conjunction with the EU-funded LiLa project, has shown the feasibility of integrating SCORM-based e-learning support with remote laboratory access. This project extends this work by creating lesson templates that capture best practice in laboratory-based learning, and then provides for automated linkages between stages of the lesson plan and the physical laboratory session. The result will be a learning tool that supports structured guidance for students in undertaking remote laboratory experiments.