- Over 600 students have used virtual lab resources since 2021
- Study finds DkIT students found virtual labs improved their confidence and offered valuable flexibility to revisit key concepts and techniques
The DkIT Virtual Laboratories project has published its first peer-reviewed study on using virtual labs and digital learning resources as part of a multi-institutional collaboration with Maynooth University, Dublin City University, University College Cork, and Technological University of The Shannon. Funded by the Human Capital Initiative (Pillar 3), the project is designed to complement and support DkIT science students’ laboratory-based, practical learning by providing them with access to a suite of interactive and engaging virtual simulation learning activities.
Over the last four years, The Virtual Lab team at DkIT has been delivering and assessing virtual laboratory simulations, virtual notebooks and use of digital hardware in classrooms to enhance practical and transversal skills in life science students. In collaboration with students and Enterprise partners in the Biopharmaceutical and Pharmaceutical sectors, the virtual laboratory team have used virtual lab resources with more than 600 undergraduate students across a range of BSc programmes since 2021.
