More in depth learning during the lab.

Higher motivation towards further inquiry.

Higher acceptance of being assessed after lab.

Post Lab in depth Questions are significantly of higher means

1- The TriLab, a Novel View of Laboratory Education . EE2008 conference, Loughborough, UK, 14-16, July, 2008. 2- A Novel Learning Object Development for Supporting Engineering Laboratory Education. International Conference on Engineering Education ICEE 2008 conference, Hungary, 27-31, July , 2008.3- Towards Constructivist Laboratory Education. The 38th Annual Frontiers in Education ASEE/IEEE joint Conference FIE 2008, 22-25.October, New York, USA.

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Enjoyable.

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Motivation towards studying more theory about the presented material

Theory Lecture Aided with Remote Experimentation Vs Pure Theory Lecture

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Motivation towards theory study

Promoting ClassroomConstructivism

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Motivation towards studying more theory about the presented material

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Motivation for engineering career

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Acknow

ledgment:

Financial support by the E

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earning (engCE

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oughborough University, U

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ducation Academ

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ini-project is gratefully acknowledged.

Rethinking Laboratory Design and Conducting

Models: TriLab & OLLO

Abstract Conceptualization

Concrete Experience

ReflectionObservation

ActiveExperimentation

Kolb experiential learning theory is considered as framework for investigating laboratory pedagogy.

There are two dimensions in Kolb cycle, the prehension (knowledge grasp) and the transformation (knowledge construction).

Finding: Poor laboratory learning outcome is due to poor activation of the prehension dimension.

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