Designing technology-intensive learning experiences to enhance motivation and understanding. Learners are required to extract abstract concepts of scientific phenomena from textbooks and visualize them as mental models. However, these traditional learning materials present information in one dimension - a static representation of the dynamic world.
Misconceptions often arise, causing learners to become discouraged and disinterested.
The delivery of science has remained unchanged for many years and learners still struggle with the same complex concepts. Today, technology can deliver information in a way that a textbook cannot. One of the goals of Virtual Labs is to incorporate learner-centered content design with computer technologies to present engaging content. Our primary directive is to put the understanding, motivation, and growth of the learner into our learner-centered design. Our learning environment creates a new standard of integrated visual teaching and active learning using media-rich graphics, animations, and interactive simulations to teach concepts and quizzes and virtual laboratories to reinforce them.