tailieunhanh - Innovations in Biotechnology Part 14

Tham khảo tài liệu 'innovations in biotechnology part 14', kỹ thuật - công nghệ, cơ khí - chế tạo máy phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Biotechnology Virtual Labs Facilitating Laboratory Access Anytime-Anywhere for Classroom Education 381 distance education courses have started using virtual laboratories to enable students to access equipment since they are independent from opening hours and the work schedule of the staff. In many engineering courses within India simulation is the most effective tool in training students in the use of sophisticated as well as complicated instruments that are routinely employed in modern biological and chemical laboratories. For the life sciences this also circumvents the use of expensive and hazardous biological and chemical agents which toxic to the experimentalists as well as to the environment. Above all the virtual lab technology is cheap as well as cost effective. Education in many universities and research institutes include their own virtual laboratories on the web which are accessible to people around the world. Although some laboratory practice requires getting one s hands dirty it has already been established that the Virtual Lab enables the students to understand the underlying principles and the theory behind laboratory experiments. E-learning plays and will play an important role in diverse regions such as India where the traditional lab facilities at Universities are not very well localized to suit requirements of all sub-regions. With multi-campus scenarios as in some Universities such as ours offering cross-disciplinary courses needs to exploit the use of extensive elearning facilities Bijlani et al. 2008 . Biotechnology lab courses richly rely upon new up-to-date content and various techniques that require a new synergy of knowledge and experimental implementation. Hence a new kind of experimental science that can be brought as a virtual simulation based laboratory is necessary. The developments of the virtual labs include mathematical techniques in biology to study to hypothesize and to demonstrate complex biological functions. However virtual .