Remote Laboratory for Secondary School Physics Curriculum

This paper describes the current influence of the remote laboratory on practical learning aspects of secondary sector of education. The key challenges faced by the teaching of science include insufficient hands-on laboratory usage in classrooms. The main objective of the paper is to present learning approach of usage VISIR Open Lab Platform for teaching Ohm ́s Law in Physics curriculum of secondary school. The activity was organized on the basis of P.Andrés Urdaneta School with support of the remote lab WebLab-Deusto. Educators can benefit from different teaching methods (collaborative, inquiry-, and project-based learning) integrated in WebLab-Deusto. Electrical experiments are common at schools and universities. Usually students execute experiments in the frame of traditional hands-on laboratories. However, the laboratory equipment is expensive and its maintenance is complicated. The remote laboratory reduces the costs significantly, makes lab experiments available almost at any time and everywhere, personalizing the learning pathways. The existing remote laboratories are more or less copies of hands-on ones. Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality (VISIR) Open Lab Platform is a remote laboratory created by Blekinge Institute of technology (BTH) for designing, wiring, and measurement of electric circuits. This main feature of VISIR allows to build a scenario of performing basic DC and low frequency AC circuits experiments related to Ohm’s and Kirchhoff’s laws. Moreover, the students will become familiar with instruments, components, manuals, data sheets, circuit wiring, and other laboratory work. In the paper the remote experiments executed by students will be presented. Finally, the preliminary result of integrating of remote experiments for study in Urdaneta School will be discussed.