Visual editor of scenarios for virtual laboratories

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Виталий Денисович Абрамов
Михаил Михайлович Абрамский
Влада Владимировна Кугуракова
Надир Ринатович Манахов
Азат Мунирович Маславиев

Abstract

The paper presents the implementation of a visual script editor that allows you to design a series of experiments for virtual educational laboratories. The connection of the above approach with the possibility of explicit control over students' involvement and methods of its evaluation is described.

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Виталий Денисович Абрамов

Junior research scientist of Kazan Federal University. Current scientific interests: virtual laboratories.

Михаил Михайлович Абрамский

Senior Lecturer of Higher School of Information Technology and Information Systems of Kazan Federal University.

Влада Владимировна Кугуракова

Senior Lecturer of Higher School of Information Technology and Information Systems, Head of Laboratory "Virtual and simulational technologies in biomedicine".

Надир Ринатович Манахов

Junior research scientist of Kazan Federal University. Current scientific interests: virtual laboratories. 

Азат Мунирович Маславиев

Student of 4 grade of Higher Institute of Information Technologies and Information Systems of Kazan Federal University.

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