Stephen Downes

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Practical lab experience can be supported with online delivery, but students may face a series of obstacles that make it far from ideal, ranging from a shortage of online facilities to a shortage of materials for lab-based projects. This paper (11 page PDF) looks a lab activities at two vocational schools in Makassar, Indonesia, and documents these issues. On the other had, in-=person labs have limitations as well, according to the authors. " One piece of equipment is practiced by 4-5 students so that the completion of the practicum does not run objectively because only one person works and the others only watch, also in a conventional laboratory only intelligent students only can practice well." In the online lab, by contrast, the teachers watch each student perform the lab one by one.

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