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OLA Logo The GOLC invites you to submit your successful Online Laboratory course, site, and product or success story, from a university or other institution or school. Awards will be given for outstanding laboratories in three categories.

Categories

Visualized Experiments: Visualized experiment is focused on observation only for coming to the conclusion / fulfilling objective of the experiments. It can be both "purely digital content" and "real-hardware supported".

  • In case of "real-hardware supported" there are no (or few inputs) input, interactions or measurements - simulated or real, from students. "Few inputs" means that the main activity/aim/objective of the experiment is visualized i.e. not dependent on the inputs. For example: an experiment where the users only observe some sensor data e.g. camera and perform the experiment by forming and testing their hypothesis by observation only (no input).
  • In case of "purely digital content" there can be inputs but there is NO simulation engine for accurate results and the focus is on producing meaningful outputs and conclusions from observation of digital animations or datasets or similar things. For example: an experiment is about selecting the right subset or properly visualizing patterns and other meaningful data from a huge dataset stored in the remote laboratory (no simulation engine used).

Simulated Experiments: Any laboratory with multiple experiments that do not have any physical hardware, but take inputs from the users changing the parameters of the experimental process. Instead of a real hardware, the experiments use a simulation engine or similar tool of some kind.

Remote Controlled Experiments: Any laboratory with multiple experiments that is built upon a real hardware and users can give inputs changing the parameters and process of the experimental hardware. Multiple experiments may be based on the same hardware setup or different hardware setup.

2024 Award

The Award Call

You are invited to submit a proposal for the 2024 International Online Laboratory Awards, presented by the Global Online Laboratory Consortium (GOLC) as part of the International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE). With this award, GOLC and IAOE search for stellar examples of online laboratories in educational settings from all STEM fields.

Awards will be given for outstanding laboratories in three categories:

  • Remotely Controlled Experiments
  • Simulated and Digitally Visualized Experiments
  • Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Experiments

GOLC is an international group of researchers and practitioners under the umbrella of IAOE that brings together researchers and practitioners in all forms of online experimentation. GOLC's involvement in international conferences and relevant journals and its strong membership base continue to advance the state of the art of the online laboratory field worldwide in all areas of education.

The awardees will be announced in March 2024 during the The International Conference on Smart Technologies & Education (STE) in Helsinki, Finland (https://ste-conference.org/current/). It is not required to attend the conference to enter the competition. However, the award winners in each category will receive one free STE 2024 conference ticket for one person per category to accept the award in person.

Submissions deadline: 15th October 2023 (Submissions are possible from 01 August 2023)

The Entry Submission Page is part of the STE2024 ConfTool.

Please find all the details in the Award Call, then please fill in the application form here: Entry Form and submit it via the STE2024 Conference Submission Server.

2023 Award Winners

Home Laboratories In Fluid Mechanics

Boettcher, Konrad; Terkowsky, Claudius; Behr, Alexander; Schade, Marcel (TU Dortmund, Germany)

(Simulation)

Mixed-Reality Online Experiments

Amin, Hani (The British University in Egypt (BUE), Egypt)

(Visualized)

Remote Environment for Programming and Development in Arduino

Silva, Juarez Bento; Bilessimo, Simone Meister Sommer; Alves, João Bosco Mota (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)

(Remote)

Virtual Lab on Oscillators

Naik, Rasika Bhushan (Vivekanand Education Society's Institute of Technology, India)

(Special Mention)

GOLC would like to thank all those who have submitted a lab for evaluation for the award. the list of the numerous participants is quite long, please find them in this PDF document.

Previous Winners

2022

Smart Factory Remote Lab

Mario Wolf, Pascalis Trentsios, Jan Luca Siewert, Lasse Christian Bömkes, Detlef Gerhard (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)

(Simulation)

Online laboratories of the Universidad Estatal a Distancia

Carlos Arguedas-Matarrita and Eric Montero-Miranda (Universidad Estatal a Distancia, Costa Rica)

(Visualized)

Mobile Remote Shake Table Laboratory

Dr. Zhaoshuo Jiang (San Francisco State University, United States)

(Remote)

GOLC would like to thank all those who have submitted a lab for evaluation for the award. the list of the numerous participants is quite long, please find them in this PDF document.

2021

Optical Fiber Communication Virtual Lab

Ranjan Bala Jain, Aashirwad Ketan Bedekar, Ambesh O. Mishra, Archita Malgaonkar, Dhairya R. Nagpal, Fiza Khan, Rohan Y. Khare, Shiva Vinod Ahir (Vivekanand Education Society's Institute of Technology, Chembur, Mumbai, India)

(Simulation)

Easy experiments with EjsS

Felix Jesus Garcia Clemente, Francisco Esquembre, Loo Kang Wee, and Tze Kwang Leong (Universidad de Murcia, Spain and Ministry of Education, Singapore)

(Visualized)

A Distributed Remote FPGA Laboratory: A Collaborative Online Lab Between 5 Universities in 4 Countries

Rania Hussein, Matthew Smith, Don Winsor, N. Ramakrishnan, Candido Aramburu, and Ana Lucia Beraldo (University of Washington, USA; University of Michigan, USA; Monash University, Malaysia; Public University of Navarre (UPNA), Spain; Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil)

(Remote)

GOLC would like to thank all those who have submitted a lab for evaluation for the award. the list of the numerous participants is quite long, please find them in this PDF document.

2020

Machine Learning Lab

Anita Diwakar (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)

(Simulation)

Virtopsia

Jennifer Samaniego Franco (Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador)

(Visualized)

techSys

Matthias Haack (Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany)

(Remote)

GOLC would like to thank all those who have submitted a lab for evaluation for the award. the list of the numerous participants is quite long, please find them in this PDF document.

2019

VILDE-Virtual labs and video-lectures for Digital electronics

Sergio Martin, Manuel Castro (UNED, Spain)

(Simulation)

LabsLand Ultra Concurrent Laboratories

Luis Rodriguez-Gil, Pablo Orduña, Aitor Villar, Ignacio Angulo, Unai Hernandez, Javier Garcia-Zubia (LabsLand, Spain)

(Visualized)

FPGA Vision Remote Lab

Marco Winzker, Andrea Schwandt (Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University, Germany)

(Remote)

LabsLand Arduino Robot Laboratory

Pablo Orduña, Luis Rodriguez-Gil, Aitor Villar, Ignacio Angulo, Unai Hernandez, Javier Garcia-Zubia (University of Deusto, Spain)

(Remote – Runner-up)

GOLC would like to thank all those who have submitted a lab for evaluation for the award. the list of the numerous participants is quite long, please find them in this PDF document.

2018

Electrical Circuit Lab

Jakob Sikken, University of Twente, The Netherlands

(Simulation)

Sustainable Laboratory Skill Education through Free Online Labs and Connecting Teachers and Students across the Country with a Nodal Center Program – 320000+ users and 350+ Amrita Online Laboratories

Shyam Diwakar, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (University), India

(Visualized)

The OpenSTEM Labs

Nicholas St.John Braithwaite, The Open University, United Kingdom

(Remote)

Cloud-based Online Lab for security, network and systems

Mon-Yen Luo, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan

(Remote – Runner-up)

GOLC would like to thank all those who have submitted a lab for evaluation for the award. the list of the numerous participants is quite long, please find them in this PDF document.

2017

LabBuilder – in the future everyone can build their own 3D virtual high-tech lab for computers, tablets, and in virtual reality

Mikkel Marfelt, Labster

(Simulation)

Maroon VR

Johanna Pirker and Christian Gütl, Graz University of Technology, Austria

(Visualized)

Mobile Remote Experiment Workgroup (GT-MRE)

Juarez Bento da Silva, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brasil

(Remote)

Circuit Warz

E2LP

(Special Mention)


2016

HY.P.A.T.I.A. Event Display

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

(Visualized)

TivSeg Simulator

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Information Processing Technologies (ITIV), Germany

(Simulation)

iSES Remote Lab SDK

Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Czech Republic

(Remote)


2015

VISIR - Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality

(Remote)

Online Exp FEUP – Online VR and AR Experimentation

(Simulation)

Latest News

18 August 2023
Book Project – Call for Chapter Proposals

Title: Online Laboratories in Engineering and Technology Education – State of the Art and Trends for the Future.

Please find the call here.


27 July 2023
GOLC – Online Lab Award

You are invited to submit a proposal for the 2024 International Online Laboratory Awards, presented by the Global Online Laboratory Consortium (GOLC).

Please find the call here.


02 May 2023
GOLC – Online Lab Award

Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 International Online Laboratory Awards, presented by the Global Online Laboratory Consortium (GOLC).

Please find them here.


17 June 2022
GOLC – Online Lab Award

You are invited to submit a proposal for the 2023 International Online Laboratory Awards, presented by the Global Online Laboratory Consortium (GOLC).

Please find the call here.


28 March 2022
Call for Papers – iJOE

The International Journal of Online and Biomedical Engineering (iJOE) will publish a Special Issue on Online-Labs in Education.

Please find the call here.


03 March 2022
GOLC – Online Lab Award

Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 International Online Laboratory Awards, presented by the Global Online Laboratory Consortium (GOLC).

Please find them here.


21 May 2021
GOLC – Online Lab Award

You are invited to submit a proposal for the 2022 International Online Laboratory Awards, presented by the Global Online Laboratory Consortium (GOLC).

Please find the call here.


29 Dec 2020
GOLC – Online Lab Award Winners!

Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 International Online Laboratory Awards, presented by the Global Online Laboratory Consortium (GOLC).

Please find them here.

IAOE's International Journal of Recent Contributions from Engineering, Science & IT

More information in this PDF.


23 Nov 2020
AFC2021: 25–28 Jan 2021

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IAOE endorses Age-friendly Cities Conference and Exhibition 2021 (AFC2021) (Fully Virtual). Please find more information here.

22 Jul 2020
GOLC – Online Lab Award

You are invited to submit a proposal for the 2021 International Online Laboratory Awards, presented by the Global Online Laboratory Consortium (GOLC).

Please find the call here.

17 Jan 2020
GOLC – Online Lab Award Winners!

Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 International Online Laboratory Awards, presented by the Global Online Laboratory Consortium (GOLC).

Please find them here.

15 Oct 2019
GOLC – Online Lab Award

You are invited to submit a proposal for the 2020 International Online Laboratory Awards, presented by the Global Online Laboratory Consortium (GOLC).

Please find the call here.

27 Sep 2019
VISIR Federation

The VISIR Federatio has now its own section at online-engineering.org.

3 May 2019
GOLC – Online Lab Award

Congratulations to the GOLC OLA 2019 Winners! They can be found here.

24 Nov 2018
GOLC – Online Lab Award

You are invited to submit a proposal for the 2019 International Online Laboratory Awards, presented by the Global Online Laboratory Consortium (GOLC).

Please find the call here.

27 June 2018
New SIGs created:

SlideWiki and e-Engineering Alliance

18 May 2018
IAOE/GOLC Workshop during ASEE Annual Conference

You are invited to attend the 'Online Laboratories in Engineering Education' workshop during ASEE Annual Conference on 24 June 2018 in Salt Lake City.

Please find the details here.

24 Oct 2017
GOLC – Online Lab Award

You are invited to submit a proposal for the 2018 International Online Laboratory Awards, presented by the Global Online Laboratory Consortium (GOLC).

Please find the call here.

27 Feb 2017
Astana EXPO & WSEC 2017

The Astana EXPO-2017 and the "World Scientific and Engineering Congress 2017" will take place on June 19-20 2017.

Further information visit Astana EXPO-2017 and WSEC 2017.

22 Dec 2016
Time to MELLO

The MOOC for Enhancing Laboratory Learning Outcomes (MELLO) is scheduled to begin on Monday 16 January 2017 and run for 6 weeks.

Further information here or go directly to the MELLO website.

24 Oct 2016
GOLC – Online Lab Award

You are invited to submit a proposal for the 2017 International Online Laboratory Awards, presented by the Global Online Laboratory Consortium (GOLC).

Please find the call here.


03 June 2016
GOLC Book Project
"Cyber-Physical Laboratories in Engineering and Science Education"

Learn more


16 Sep 2015
GOLC – Online Lab Award

You are invited to submit a proposal for the 2016 International Online Laboratory Awards, presented by the Global Online Laboratory Consortium (GOLC).

Please find the call here.

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