Designing laboratory experiments can take significant
workload to be effective and increase student satisfaction. In
particular developing video resources can be time consuming,
but beneficial for learning [6]. The traditional method of
developing laboratory notes is that the process is independent.
Each subject coordinator would individually (or subject
teaching team) go through the process of teaching and
providing resources to complete the laboratory. A major
drawback to this method is that productivity would be low, as it
was common for different subject coordinates to duplicate the
creation of resources or instruction. A second problem existed
if hardware or software changed, resulting in the need to update
the resources. A third problem was it was often hard, to cater
for students, that did not have the pre-requisite skills. Finally,
advanced students could become bored, and lose interest in an
experiment if it was too simple and repeated existing skills.