Virtual and remote labs in education: A bibliometric analysis
By Ruben Heradio, Luis de la Torre, Daniel Galan, F. Cabrerizo, Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Sebastián Dormido. Comput. Educ., 2016
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Laboratory experimentation plays an essential role in engineering and scientific education. Virtual and remote labs reduce the costs associated with conventional hands-on labs due to their required equipment, space, and maintenance staff. Furthermore, they provide additional benefits such as supporting distance learning, improving lab accessibility to handicapped people, and increasing safety for dangerous experimentation. This paper analyzes the literature on virtual and remote labs from its beginnings to 2015, identifying the most influential publications, the most researched topics, and how the interest in those topics has evolved along the way. To do so, bibliographical data gathered from ISI Web of Science, Scopus and GRC2014 have been examined using two prominent bibliometric approaches: science mapping and performance analysis. Display Omitted Laboratory experimentation plays an essential role in engineering and sci-entific education.Virtual and remote labs are emerging as a valuable alternative to conven-tional hands-on labs.This paper analyzes the literature on virtual and remote labs from 1993 to 2015.4405 records retrieved from ISI Web of Science, Scopus and GRC2014 are processed.Two bibliometric approaches are applied: performance analysis and science mapping.
Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science Applications, Media Technology
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- Virtual experimental platforms in chemistry laboratory education and its impact on experimental self-efficacy (2020, background): “Several researchers report that practical experimentation plays an essential role in science and engineering education (Heradio et al. 2016; Waldrop 2013; De Jong et al. 2013; Winkelmann et al. 2014; Lasica et al. 2016).”
- Systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis on virtual reality and education (2022, methodology): “The recommendations of (Heradio et al., 2016) were used to complete this part of the study.”