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New Project Promotes Virtual Science Labs, Despite Skepticism
By admin | December 12, 2009
New Project Promotes Virtual Science Labs, Despite Skepticism
Atlanta – Can online science laboratories replace the experience of sitting at a lab bench with beaker in hand? No way, say many professors. But Kemi Jona, director of Northwestern University’s Office of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Education Partnerships, argues that virtual labs are at least as good, and in some cases better, at teaching students concepts to prepare them for modern laboratory research.
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