Remote Instrumentation
Another one of Educauses’ excellent concise guide. This guide looks ta how universities might make instruments available remotely to external institutions and their students. In a nutshell students will be able to log and manipulate technology to preform experiments which previously would have only been reported to them as part of a lecture.
As Educause defines it “Remote instrumentation is the practice of providing control of scientific instruments from remote locations. Devices for which a college or university might arrange remote access include astronomical instruments, spectrometers, or electronics equipment.”.
And among the benefits: “Exposing students to such equipment, allowing them to engage in authentic learning
experiences rather than just simulations or canned exercises using archival data, creates more compelling learning opportunities.”.
