Virtual and remote labs reduce the costs associated with conventional hands-on labs¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · review r2 · q1
Currency · newest study 2016 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q1 i? Virtual and remote labs reduce the costs associated with conventional hands-on labs due to their required equipment, space, and maintenance staff. → Ruben Heradio 2016

Evidence¶

Ruben Heradio 2016¶

Ruben Heradio, Luis de la Torre, Daniel Galan, Francisco Javier Cabrerizo, Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Sebastian Dormido. (2016). Virtual and remote labs in education: A bibliometric analysis. Computers & Education, Volume 98, Pages 14-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2016.03.010

q1 · i? · review · r2

The review's abstract states this cost-reduction claim as motivation for the bibliometric analysis; the article offers it as a descriptive assertion, and the supplied text provides no measured cost comparison. The claim names equipment, space, and maintenance staff as cost drivers.

"Virtual and remote labs reduce the costs associated with conventional hands-on labs due to their required equipment, space, and maintenance staff."

Discussion¶

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