Nicolete, P. C., Bento da Silva, J., Cristiano, M. A., Bilessimo, S. M., Ferreira de Farias, G., & Filho, S. S. (2019). A remote mobile experiment in Brazilian public basic education. In M. Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), TPACK: Breakthroughs in research and practice (pp. 457–478). https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7918-2.ch022

Abstract:

“The STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) are very important for education, but the lack of experimental laboratories for these subjects in a school might decrease the interest of its students in STEM fields. This chapter explores these issues in the Brazilian context where, in order to address this issue, remote experiments are used to share real experiments manipulated through the Internet. Teachers and students can use remote laboratories, equipped with real experiments, to put in practice theoretical concepts learned in class. This chapter presents a report on a pilot project that aims to explore the use of Mobile Remote Experimentation (MRE) by teachers and students of public high schools in Brazil. It involves the use of mobile devices to access remote experiments in STEM subjects through the Internet. The report demonstrates the effectiveness of using such educational resources to improve pedagogical results by applying the TPACK (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge) model to measure the impact of MRE by STEM teachers.”