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标题：Opinion piece: non-traditional practical work for traditional campuses
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作者：Timothy D. Drysdale ; Simon Kelley ; Anne-Marie Scott 等
期刊名称：Higher Education Pedagogies
电子版ISSN：2375-2696
出版年度：2020
卷号：5
期号：1
页码：210-222
DOI：10.1080/23752696.2020.1816845
出版社：Taylor and Francis Ltd
摘要：Traditional practical work for higher education in STEM subjects is under pressure from rising student numbers and adesired increase in active learning. Investing in more buildings and staff is financially challenging, while stretching existing resources affects outcomes, health, and participation. A more pragmatic approach is to embrace a less instrumentalist view of practical work in physical spaces and instead adopt a critical post-humanist approach which mixes both humanity and technology to achieve a sum greater than the parts, not bound by the limits of either. We share the experiences of leading UK exponents of non-traditional laboratories in the four main categories of simulation, virtual laboratories, real-asynchronous, and real-synchronous activities, as well as experts in scaling digital education initiatives for university-wide adoption. We foreshadow opportunities, challenges and potential solutions to increasing the opportunity for active learning by students studying at traditional campuses, via the complementary addition of non-traditional practical work.
关键词：Laboratories ; practical work ; experiments ; simulations ; remote laboratories ; virtual laboratories ; blended learning ; pooling ; automation