Online practical work for science and engineering students

Project leader(s): Mark Endean
Theme: Online/onscreen STEM practice
Faculty: STEM
Status: Archived
Dates: April 2011 to August 2012

This short scoping project aimed to assess the feasibility of and, ideally, shape a longer‐term programme of collaborative working between the Faculties of Science and MCT, and East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) in Shanghai, China. The work reported here informs a plan to jointly develop an online experiment. That may be the subject of a further proposal in due course. The outputs from this preliminary project are more or less detailed accounts of the:

similarities and differences in approaches to the development of computer‐based experiments in each institution
potential for and challenges in the adaptation of software/hardware for use in both locations
practicable approaches to sharing common facilities for the use of students of either institution
possibilities for creating interinstitution student teams to enhance learning and promote inter‐cultural awareness.