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An Open Source Virtual Lab for School Physics EducationAuthors: Jeetinder Singh,Harini Sampath,Jayanthi Sivaswamy Conference: The National Conference on Open Source Software, C-Dac, Nai Mumbai (NCOSS-2009 2009) Date: 2009-05-25 Report no: IIIT/TR/2009/239 AbstractThere is a need to create quality open source educational resources to address the needs of Indian schools. In this paper,we describe a virtual physics lab which we built based on open source components. This is basically an authoring tool that lets user create their own experiments. We first discuss for the need for virtual labs. We then present the architecture of our tool and the technical challenges we faced in creating it. We also present the feedback we received from school students on this tool. Full paper: pdf Centre for IT in Education |
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