Acquisition and User Behavior in Online Science Laboratories before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic
2021 (English)In: MULTIMODAL TECHNOLOGIES AND INTERACTION, ISSN 2414-4088, Vol. 5, no 8, article id 46Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the closure of schools at every level, globally, forcing education to move online. Meeting the needs of students online for Science Lab classes, in particular, is a challenge since the physical labs are not available to the teachers or students. OLabs is a virtual Science Lab providing a complete learning environment of theory, experimental procedures, videos, animations, simulations, and assessments that capture real lab experiences with the relevant pedagogy. This study looks at the acquisition and behaviors of users, on the OLabs platform, during pre and COVID-19 times. Using Google Analytics, we observe that, during the pandemic time, users increasingly adopted OLabs as a new learning pedagogy for performing experiments as indicated by parameters like the number of users; the number of unique pages viewed per session; time spent on viewing content; bounce rate; and preference for content types such as theory, simulations, videos, and animations.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
MDPI , 2021. Vol. 5, no 8, article id 46
Keywords [en]
online laboratories, virtual laboratories, COVID-19, simulations, science, school
National Category
Signal Processing
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-302045DOI: 10.3390/mti5080046ISI: 000691228000001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85113359261OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-302045DiVA, id: diva2:1595647
Note
QC 20210920
2021-09-202021-09-202022-06-25Bibliographically approved