The collaborative laboratory notebook for learning science

At the intersection of an electronic lab notebook and a learning platform, LabNBook enables students to collaboratively produce lab reports, scientific write-ups, and other technical documents.

Designed to support science practical sessions—whether in-person or remote—LabNBook provides:

  • structured writing spaces designed by instructors to guide the expected scientific approach;
  • integrated tools (text, equations, diagrams, protocols, data, Python code, etc.) to design experiments, analyze, model, and discuss experimental results;
  • a collaborative environment with monitoring and feedback tools to foster student autonomy under instructor supervision.
Developed as an open-source project at Université Grenoble Alpes, LabNBook is used each year by more than 6,000 users on the Grenoble platform (including high school students and those in preparatory classes, universities, and engineering schools). LabNBook is also deployed in several other higher education institutions.

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Fundings

"CNRS OPEN" 2024-26 : consolidate the LabNBook code to promote distribution.

Idex-Formation UGA 2022-23 : initiate the dissemination of LabNBook in the French higher education institutions.

SHIFT-LabNBook partnership : auto- and peer-assessment.

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Research

LabNBook is derived from researches in Technology-Enhanced Learning. This domain articulates researches in computer sciences, education sciences, and didactics.

The investigated questions in LabNBook deal with the conception of the environment, its usages in ecological context, and the learning outcomes induced.

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