Beyond the lab ?

Extending Quality Assessment beyond Theclassroom: the Campus Computer Lab Scale

Computers have assumed an increasingly important role in the educational process, and consequently, institutions of higher learning have sought to enhance the quality of computer access they provide on their campuses. Based on a study of student computer users at a large state university, this paper reports the purification of a psychometric scale designed to assess the service quality of campu...

Beyond Open Innovation: the Living Lab Way of ICT Innovation

Open innovation becomes very popular nowadays. However, how to involve users in open innovation process and unleash the potential of more real life end users is still not easy. Living Lab is the development of open innovation paradigm which combines the advantages of users and their real life contexts and provides a structure and governance for involving users. In this paper, we propose a Livin...

Reading English in the Computer Lab

The present study compares the performance of two TEFL reading classes: one taking place in a regular classroom and the other held in a computer lab, with the learners practicing reading online. The results of an independent samples t-test showed that the difference between the learners’ scores on their reading comprehension post-tests and pretests did not differ statistically significantly fro...

The Virtual Experiences Lab - a platform for global collaborative engineering and beyond

RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia { ian.peake | janolaf.blech | ian.edward.thomas |nicholas.may | heinrich.schmidt | lasith.fernando | ravi.sreenivasamurthy } @rmit.edu.au INTRODUCTION We are developing the Virtual Experiences (Vx)Lab, a research and research training infrastructure and capability platform for global collaboration. VxLab comprises labs with visualisation capabilities, incl...

Beyond Class Hours: The GIS Lab as a Center of Geographic Education