Assessment Of Remote Experiments And Local Simulations: Student Experiences, Satisfaction, And Suggestions

This paper has a comparison of student reactions to having laboratory experiments conducted with simulation software and being conducted remotely through the Web. The students in a process controls course were exposed to both simulation and remote experiments at different times during the course. We surveyed the students at the end of the course about aspects of the two methods of conducting experiments. These surveys are one of the “outcomes” of the course and are tabulated here. This paper discusses some changes that can be instituted to capture the best learning features of the two methods of having students learn from the laboratory.