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Web-based Associate of Science (WASc)

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Web-based Associate of Science (WASc)

 

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Name:

Web-based Associate of Science (WASc)

(This project originated the Remote Web-based Science Laboratory (RWSL) concept and built the first prototype.)

 

Location: British Columbia, Canada

 

URL(s):

http://rwsl.nic.bc.ca

http://rwsl.nic.bc.ca/Docs/Review_of_Literature_on_Remote_and_Web-based_Science_Labs.pdf

 

Contacts:

Ron Evans, ron.evans@nic.bc.ca

Albert Balbon, albert.balbon@nic.bc.ca

Gina Bennett, BENNETT@cotr.bc.ca

 

Participating institutions:

North Island College, College of the Rockies, Kwantlen Polytecnic University in association with Thompson Rivers University,

 

Funding Source(s):

Inukshuk Fund

BCcampus

 

Purpose:

To provide the entire Associate of Science degree on-line including the labs.

 

Policies:

These are under development.

 

Procedures:

These are under development.

 

Hardware:

See http://rwsl.nic.bc.ca/

 

Software:

LabView

 

Scheduling Solutions:

Currently scheduling is being done manually as needed by contacting Albert Balbon ( albert.balbon@nic.bc.ca ), but we are looking at automated options in conjunction with the NANSLO project.  There are a number of commercial options we may or may not use.

 

Academic level:

First and Second Year (2nd year work has not begun.)

 

Academic area:

Geology, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Astronomy (The Web-based space science and astronomy course was the fore runner of the WASc project.)

 

Lab names:

See web-site: http://rwsl.nic.bc.ca/

 

Capacity

The WASc RWSL contains 1 Standard sub-module and so can handle students at a rate of approximately 1 student/hour.  However to date the WASc RWSL has been primarily used for development work and only a few students have used it to date.  This number will begin to grow over the coming months and year.

 

Search Terms Used:

This is our project so no search terms were required

 

Comments:

This project is approaching the half way point in that all first year sciences are on-line and ready to beta test except for second semester chemistry.

 

 

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