Teaching acoustic during a pandemic: Lab in a Box for experiments at home
Journal article
Dance, S. (2022). Teaching acoustic during a pandemic: Lab in a Box for experiments at home. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 151 (4). https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0010042
Authors | Dance, S. |
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Abstract | In March 2020 with the advent of COVID emergency plans were put in place to deliver the Masters’ course in Environmental and Architectural Acoustics entirely on-line. This was necessary as although the acoustics laboratory is large, it was deemed to be unsafe for face-to-face teaching due to a complete lack of ventilation in the anechoic and reverberation chambers. Hence, it was necessary to create an alternative for the 2020/21 delivery. In September 2020 it was decided that a “Lab in a box” supported by on-line demonstrations and pre-recorded films would create the best alternative experience for the postgraduate students. The “Lab in a box” allowed the demonstrations to be replicated at home or in the garden using a Windows based calibrated measurement platform based on audio components. Examples of such laboratories included Fast and Slow measurements, Noise exposure, Noise Survey, Loudness, Reverberation Time, and Speech Intelligibility. The results showed that the students gained from more independence, increased flexibility in deliver achieving very similar marks. This has opened-up the possibility of increasing student numbers by reusing these alternative teaching strategies in the future. |
Keywords | Teaching acoustics, lab in a box, online teaching |
Year | 2022 |
Journal | The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America |
Journal citation | 151 (4) |
Publisher | Acoustical Society of America (ASA) |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0010042 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.acousticalsociety.org |
Publication dates | |
01 Apr 2022 | |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 14 Mar 2022 |
Deposited | 01 Apr 2022 |
Accepted author manuscript | License File description final reviewed paper File Access Level Open |
Additional information | Copyright 2022 Acoustical Society of America. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the Acoustical Society of America. |
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