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Article

Acquisition and User Behavior in Online Science Laboratories before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic

by
Raghu Raman
1,*,
Ricardo Vinuesa
2,* and
Prema Nedungadi
1
1
Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kerala 690525, India
2
Engineering Mechanics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-10044 Stockholm, Sweden
*
Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Multimodal Technol. Interact. 2021, 5(8), 46; https://doi.org/10.3390/mti5080046
Submission received: 16 June 2021 / Revised: 21 July 2021 / Accepted: 6 August 2021 / Published: 16 August 2021
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Abstract

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.
Keywords: online laboratories; virtual laboratories; COVID-19; simulations; science; school online laboratories; virtual laboratories; COVID-19; simulations; science; school

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Raman, R.; Vinuesa, R.; Nedungadi, P. Acquisition and User Behavior in Online Science Laboratories before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Multimodal Technol. Interact. 2021, 5, 46. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti5080046

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Raman R, Vinuesa R, Nedungadi P. Acquisition and User Behavior in Online Science Laboratories before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. 2021; 5(8):46. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti5080046

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Raman, Raghu, Ricardo Vinuesa, and Prema Nedungadi. 2021. "Acquisition and User Behavior in Online Science Laboratories before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic" Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 5, no. 8: 46. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti5080046

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Raman, R., Vinuesa, R., & Nedungadi, P. (2021). Acquisition and User Behavior in Online Science Laboratories before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 5(8), 46. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti5080046

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