Opinion piece: non-traditional practical work for traditional campuses

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Figure 1. A picture of a virtual microscope interface from the Open University, showing the polarised light feature. Figure from https://virtualmicroscope.org reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence

Figure 2. Block diagram for an experimental position servomechanism. Students undertake asynchronous experiments through a web page varying the gains K_a, K_t and K_p. Figure sourced from.Weightman et al. (2007)

Figure 3. Results of multiple Individual student responses characterise a dynamic experimental system. Figure sourced from.Hanson et al. (2009)

Weightman, A., Culmer, P., Levesly, M., & Hansen, B. (2007). An application of remotely controlled experiments to perform feed forward and feedback damping control of an electro mechanical servomechanism. In Webist conference 2007.

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Hanson, B., Culmer, P., Gallagher, J., Page, K., Read, E., Weightman, A., & Levesley, M. (2009). ReLOAD: Real labs operated at a distance. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2(4), 331–341. doi:10.1109/TLT.2009.35

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