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Posted: 7 Feb 2019We are looking for partner HEIs and training providers to co-develop and share remote access ...
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The OpenScience Laboratory
An initiative of The Open University and The Wolfson Foundation
This online laboratory brings interactive practical science to students anywhere and anytime the internet is available. The laboratory features investigations based on on-screen instruments, remote access experiments and virtual scenarios using real data. Several activities are available to all, while others are available only to registered users.
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Popular experiments
Time required 30 mins or more
Body tissues under the microscope (SDK100)
Subject Health BioFor use in OU Module SDK100 Topic 2 Activity 2.1
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Virtual petrographic microscope
Subject Earth EnvThin rock sections viewed under a polarising microscope.
Time required 1-2 hours
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VM for Earth sciences
Subject Earth EnvExamine 3D specimens and microscope images of rocks, meteorites & moon rocks.
Time required 1 hour or more
Leaf Structure as Environment Indicator
Subject Env BioMicroscopic study of leaf structure relating to environment
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Introducing Baxter
Subject Robo EngTime required 55 minutes
Graph plotter (S201)
Subject GenTime required
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Hominid skull evolution
Subject Bio Earth EnvExplore the features of a collection of hominid skulls and take measurements that will enable you to determine the evolutionary relationships between them, investigating the march of bipedalism through the fossil record.
Time required
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Planets and moons labcasts (S283, Moons MOOC)
Subject AstroCatch-up recordings of live interactive broadcasts
Time required