This workshop was part of the HEA Enhancement Event 'Ways of knowing, ways of learning: innovation in pedagogy for graduate success'. This workshop was designed for those teaching in higher education who had experience of running laboratory classes and wished to make effective use of virtual resources. During the session delegates explored the benefits and limitations of virtual experiments and the literature and research work in this area. They had the opportunity to explore the relationship between virtual and hands on experiments and identify strategies to integrate them in the design of your own laboratory practice and curriculum. This handout is part of a blog post about this workshop, which can be accessed via http://bit.ly/1zupPZc

1. Integrating Virtual Experiments into the
Overall laboratory Experience
References
Chini et al., Phys Rev Spec Topics Phys Educ Res 8, 010113, 2012
Climent-Bellido, J Chem Educ 80, 346, 2003
Coble et al., IEEE EDUCON Engineering Education 2010 pp. 1085-1090.
Dalgarno, Bishop and Bedgood, UniServe Science Improving Learning Outcomes Symposium Proceedings pp. 90-95.
Finkelstein et al., Phys Rev Spec Topics Phys Educ Res 1, 010103, 2005
Huppert et al., Int J Sci Educ 24, 803, 2002
Kara et al., Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences 28, 722-728, 2011
Lewis, https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/node/10187
Olympiou and Zacharia, Sci Educ 96, 21, 2012
Richter, Tetour and Boehringer, www.sefi.be/wp-content/papers2011/T12/220.pdf
Rossiter and Shokuhi, UKACC International Conference on Control 2012
Toth et al, Innovative High Educ 33, 333, 2009
Triona and Klahr, Cogn Instr 21, 149, 2003
Wiesner and Lan, J Eng Educ 93, 195, 2004
Zacharia and Constantinou, Am J Phys76, 425, 2008