August 29, 2022
Online Laboratory calculus with automatic/instant Feedback (OLaF)
Students need to be able to make calculations quickly and flawlessly in the laboratory, but appear to lack the necessary skills. That is why Maastricht University developed an online tool, OLaF, with which students can independently train themselves in lab calculation skills. As a result, the students make fewer mistakes during the expensive lab sessions and teachers have more time to spend on supervising the experiments. This tool contains adaptive e-learning in which the students are presented with cases with game elements to challenge each student at his/her level. In addition, the tool should provide rich, immediate feedback that is dependent on the student's responses. The tool is initially being developed for the biomedical, medical and health science programmes at Maastricht University. The tool is widely applicable and can be used in other universities, higher education colleges and secondary schools. The teaching materials are available under a CC BY 4.0 licence on the website https://olaf.education. The source code of the developed software is available under GPLv3 to deploy yourself and to get it working on your own web server. Install Drupal 7.x (see https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases) on an Apache/MySQL/PHP web server. ClosedQuestion Module via https://www.drupal.org/project/closedquestion Adaptive Case Module via https://bitbucket.org/krytbv/adaptive-case Import the questions using the zip file or create your own questions. The zip file can be requested by sending an email to: info@olaf.education