For those of us in the RAIN network, we know that access to our sophisticated instrumentation can be a strong outreach tool to engage students in the science classrooms. We often wonder how other disciplines use web-based access to instrumentation.
Enter NANSLO, an international consortium enabling access to high-quality, modular, openly licensed courseware, integrating immersive web-based labs with software, video, and robotics for the study of science courses. http://www.wiche.edu/nanslo. To learn what facilitators, technicians, and faculty, who have used NANSLO, feel about the impact in the classroom, visit this link and let us know what you think, https://youtu.be/znvQhNl2vMY
Benefits of NANSLO for students:
- Gain access to sophisticated lab equipment remotely.
- Experience lab opportunities that may not be available locally or difficult to schedule based on personal and work commitments.
- Robotically control lab equipment through web-enabled software.
- Access accurate scientific data making the experience authentic for students.
- College data in real time.
- Opportunities to work as a group on experiments just as in a face-to-face setting.
- Ability to capture high quality pictures for assignments and reports.
- Expand opportunities to practice what has already been covered in class.
- Learn software skills that can be leveraged in class and in work.
