Design And Implementation Of Virtual-lab Platform For High School Physics Teaching

Physics is a laboratory-based science. Physics experiment is not only an important part and learning method, but also one of the objectives in physics learning. With the development of virtual lab technologies, virtual lab can make up for limitations of learning style, time and space in traditional physics lab by using its high degree simulation, powerful interactivity, expansibility, data processing ability and connectivity. However, we find that the current teaching-oriented virtual labs are mainly used in university education. And there are the questions of emphasis on technical and light on theory, lack of analyzing at discipline features and learners' characteristics and lack of experimental management platform and so on.In this study, case analysis method, system analysis method, software system modeling and implementation method are adopted and a combined teaching model of virtual and real experiment is proposed by pulling virtual lab technology into traditional high-school physics classes and a platform which is suit to teachers' experiment instruction and students' self learning in high school is designed and implemented. The teaching model can fully perform the superiorities of virtual lab and traditional lab and promote the physics learning style to the directions of self-learning, inquiry learning and cooperative learning and promote the high school physics education to quality education direction. The following results are yielded.Analysis the respective advantages and limitations of the real and virtual lab for high school physics experiment instruction. And put forward the combinative construction methods of real and virtual lab in high school physics based on Gagne's Learning Outcomes Classification System Theory and Blended Learning Theory.Design and develop system administration sub system, virtual lab sub system and auxiliary sub system in the virtual lab platform based on three-tier architecture.The innovations of the research are as following.Aimed at the features of high school subject physics and virtual learning, the writer attempts to promote and implement a virtual lab platform model which is suited to the teachers and students.From the points of Learning Outcomes Classification System Theory and Blended Learning Theory, the writer proposes recommendations in how to using the platform to construct a virtual and real combined instructional model in high school physics experiment instruction.