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Hi All,

 

If you know of a project that relates to the delivery of lab exercises in an "RWSL-like" way, please enter it here.  I will watch this page and periodically move the information you have provided along with anything I can learn about your suggested project to the appropriate page in the Environmental Scan.

 

To use this page, click on the EDIT tab (above) and COPY the Blank Record Template (below) to the end of this document.   Fill in as much information as you have in the various fields of the new record you just created.  Click on Save and you are done!

 

Thank-you for your help!

 

Ron

 

To help you know what is expected in each field (you do not have to fill them all out, but fill in as much as you can) here is a record with some explanation in each field:

 

Record with Field Definitions

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Name:  Project/initiative name

 

Location: Where is it located?  The state or province is adequate here.

 

URL(s): What URLs are associated with this project or initiative?

 

Contacts: Give as much information as you can about the person or people who can be contacted about this project.  At the very least this field should contain a name and an e-mail address.

 

Participating institutions: List all institutions participating in this project if possible.  At the very least include the principle institution or institutions.

 

Funding Source(s): Who provided funding for this project?

 

Purpose:  What is this project trying to accomplish and who is their target audience?

 

Policies: What policies does this project have regarding the use of its equipment and who it might partner with?

 

Procedures: How does a student (or anyone else for that matter) gain access to this project's lab resources?

 

Hardware: What hardware are they using?  This includes both Laboratory hardware and the hardware required to place a lab exercise on-line including servers, robotic components, etc.

 

Software: What software are they using?  This includes the software required to place lab exercises on-line.

 

Scheduling Solutions: How are students scheduled to use the lab equipment in this project?

 

Academic level:  What level(s) is this project targeted at? K-12, 1st year, 2nd year, higher undergraduate, postgraduate levels

 

Academic area:: What academic area(s) is this project targeted at?  General Science, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Engineering, etc

 

Lab names: What lab exercises does this project make available on-line?

 

Capacity: About how many students per semester can this project handle comfortably?

 

Search Terms Used:  What search terms were used to find this project? 

 

Comments:  Any additional comments concerning this project not covered in the above fields.

 

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Blank Record Template

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Name:

 

Location:

 

URL(s):

 

Contacts:

 

Participating institutions:

 

Funding Source(s):

 

Purpose:

 

Policies:

 

Procedures:

 

Hardware:

 

Software:

 

Scheduling Solutions:

 

Academic level:

 

Academic area:

 

Lab names:

 

Capacity:

 

Search Terms Used:

 

Comments:

 

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