Expanding the use of Remote Scientific Instrumentation within the Curriculum: Continued Development of the Integrated Laboratory Network

化学（12）综合实验室网络（ILN）通过使用基于网络的技术，提供随时随地访问科学仪器和支持教学材料。 该倡议汇集了一些中学和中学后学校，通过综合实验室网络联盟（ILNC）在课程中扩大和加强远程仪器的使用。 ILNC开发和测试机构有效地共享和使用各种教室，实验室和研究活动的远程仪器所需的基于Web的工具。 ILNC还开发了一个自我维持的商业模式，使机构能够有效地提供和使用ILN资源。 该项目的智力价值在于学生，教师和研究人员从整个课程中扩展使用仪器中获得的好处。 在传统的教室和实验室时间范围之外使用仪器为更多的学生提供了更好的科学仪器操作培训，扩大了学生参与真实科学活动的机会，并促进和使该项目产生广泛的影响。该项目为许多机构提供了获得这些仪器的机会，否则这些仪器的购置成本很高，而且维护起来也很困难。 这些福利累积到公立高中、部落学院、社区学院、学院和大学等机构。

Chemistry (12) The Integrated Laboratory Network (ILN) provides anytime and anyplace access to scientific instrumentation and supporting instructional materials through the use of web-based technologies. The initiative brings together a number of secondary and post-secondary schools to expand and enhance the use of remote instrumentation within the curriculum through the Integrated Laboratory Network Consortium (ILNC). The ILNC develops and tests the web-based tools necessary for institutions to effectively share and use remote instrumentation for a variety of classroom, laboratory, and research activities. The ILNC also has developed a self sustaining business model necessary for institutions to effectively provide and use ILN resources. The intellectual merit of this project lies in benefits gained by students, faculty, and researchers from the expanded use of instrumentation throughout the curriculum. Access to instrumentation outside the traditional classroom and laboratory timeframe provides better training for more students in the operation of scientific instruments, expands opportunities for students to participate in authentic scientific activities, and promotes and enables the project to have broad impact. The project provides many institutions with access to instruments that would otherwise be expensive to acquire and costly and difficult to maintain. These benefits accrue to institutions ranging from public high schools, tribal colleges, community colleges, colleges and universities.