Adopting the Principles and Practices of the Integrated Laboratory Network (ILN) at other Institutions: Implementation and Evaluation

跨学科(99)综合实验室网络(ILN)将实验室、计算机和教学技术结合在一起，提供广泛的教学、研究和学习机会。通过使用各种基于互联网的教学包，如NetMeeting和Blackboard，实现了更多地访问大学实验室、仪器和专业知识。ILN的智力价值在于它允许学生和研究人员在任何配备互联网的计算机上操作仪器，并提供通过互联网直接交换信息、数据和课堂材料的方式。更广泛的影响包括增加在课堂上使用仪器的机会，这使更多的学生能够在课程的早期阶段接受培训并使用仪器进行研究和课堂活动。在西华盛顿大学开发和建立的ILN系统和相关的教学材料和做法正在进行修改，并在不列颠哥伦比亚大学和贝灵汉学区的项目中进行测试。正在从学生、教师和院校层面评估ILN在这些机构的可转移性、适应性和影响。在这些机构成功采用国际法将显示国际法原则和做法的普遍性。这一示范项目将为各机构提供必要的工具，以开发内部ILN系统，或与其他机构建立联系，以开发机构间ILN。

Interdisciplinary (99) The Integrated Laboratory Network (ILN) combines laboratory, computer, and instructional technology to provide a wide range of teaching, research, and learning opportunities. Through the use of a variety of Internet-based instructional packages, such as NetMeeting and Blackboard, greater access to university laboratories, instrumentation, and expertise is achieved. The intellectual merit of the ILN lies in how it allows students and researchers to operate instruments from any Internet-equipped computer and provides for the direct exchange of information, data, and classroom material over the Internet. The broader impacts include increased access to instrumentation in the classroom, which allows more students to be trained on and to use instruments for research and classroom activities at earlier stages within curricula. The ILN system and associated instructional materials and practices developed and established at Western Washington University are being modified and tested in programs at the University of British Columbia and the Bellingham School District. The transferability, adaptability and impact of the ILN at these institutions are being assessed at the student, instructor and institution level. Successful adoption of the ILN at these institutions will demonstrate the universal nature of ILN principles and practices. This demonstration project will provide institutions with the necessary tools to develop an internal ILN system, or to link to other institutions for the development of an inter-institutional ILN.