Virtual Laboratory: A Boon to the Mechanical Engineering Education during COVID-19 Pandemic

Autor/inn/en	Kapilan, N.; Vidhya, P.; Gao, Xiao-Zhi
Titel	Virtual Laboratory: A Boon to the Mechanical Engineering Education during COVID-19 Pandemic
Quelle	In: Higher Education for the Future, 8 (2021) 1, S.31-46 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Kapilan, N.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2347-6311
DOI	10.1177/2347631120970757
Schlagwörter	Engineering Education; Computer Simulation; Laboratories; COVID-19; Pandemics; School Closing; Faculty Development; College Faculty; Educational Technology; Technology Uses in Education; College Students; Student Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes; Foreign Countries; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ingenieurausbildung; Computergrafik; Computersimulation; Laboratory; Laboratorium; School closings; Schule; Schließung; Schließung (von Schulen); Fakultät; Unterrichtsmedien; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Collegestudent; Schülerverhalten; Lehrerverhalten; Ausland; Indien
Abstract	The engineering students understand the engineering concepts effectively when they conduct the experiments in the laboratory. Hence, laboratory is as important as theory; however, the ill-equipped laboratory facilities affect the students' learnability. The virtual laboratories may help the students overcome the problems faced by them in the conventional laboratory. In India, educational activities during the middle of the semester were affected due to lockdown related to COVID-19. However, the theory classes were conducted online, and educational institutions are finding it difficult to complete the laboratory experiments due to closure of colleges for the students due to COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, we have conducted a faculty development programme for the engineering college faculty members on mechanical engineering virtual laboratories. Similarly, we have trained the mechanical engineering students on fluid mechanics virtual laboratory. We have taken feedback from the participants of these virtual laboratory training programme and analysed it. From the analysis we have observed that more than 90 per cent of the participants were happy about the virtual laboratory and they expressed that their learning process improved with virtual laboratory experiments. Also, they felt that the virtual laboratories can be used till the COVID-19 pandemic issues are solved. Since the vaccine for COVID-19 is not available yet, the virtual laboratories will help the mechanical engineering students to conduct the laboratory experiments for the academic year 2020-2021. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01