A rig booking system for on-line laboratories

Abstract

Abstract-Recently, many educational institutions have acknowledged the importance of making laboratories available on-line, allowing their students to run experiments from a remote computer. While usage of virtual laboratories scales well, remote experiments, based on scarce and expensive rigs, i.e. physical resources, do not and typically can only be used by one person or cooperating group at a time. It is therefore necessary to administer the access to rigs, where we distinguish between three different roles: content providers, teachers and students.This paper reports on a conceptual model and technical design of a rig booking system that provides mechanisms for content providers and teachers to control and grant access to on-line remote laboratories. The design of the booking system is based on a requirements analysis carried out by the EC funded LiLa project in cooperation with international partners from the Global Online Lab Consortium, GoLC.

Modos de integración de laboratorios online en sistemas de gestión de aprendizaje

“…Varios autores apuntaron la idea de diseñar laboratorios online sin olvidar aspectos pedagógicos, pensando en la efectividad del aprendizaje [11], y otros señalaron la posibilidad de cerrar el hueco que había entre los laboratorios online y los LMS [15]. El primer acercamiento se produjo cuando empezaron a desarrollarse redes de laboratorios online que utilizaban plataformas Web especializadas (por ejemplo eMersion [14]) que permitían el acceso y compartición entre distintos centros y organismos (proyecto AutomatLabs [39], proyecto RCL [16], proyecto Lila [12], proyecto iLab [40], DeustoLabs [13]). La mayoría de estas plataformas permiten la compartición de laboratorios remotos (algunos también virtuales) mediante una determinada tecnología como pueden ser los Web Services para conectarse a los equipos remotos que realizan el control directo de los recursos reales, sin embargo operaban de forma paralela a los LMS institucionales sin la posibilidad de aprovechar las ventajas pedagógicas que esto supone y, por lo tanto, sin permitir interacciones entre el laboratorio y el LMS.…”

LiLa Booking System: Architecture and Conceptual Model of a Rig Booking System for On-Line Laboratories

“…This document builds upon [2] but aims to be self contained, thus some sections from the original paper have been quoted here.…”

“…1a or 1b). The student's Web browser will download the experiment and execute the booking system code to check access permissions (2). If the student has a valid ticket, she can execute the experiment (3).…”

Merging Remote Laboratories and Enquiry-based Learning for STEM Education

“…The LMS contains experiment documentation, collaborative tools, the command interface and audio/video feed. The Lila Project [10] created a portal that integrates RAL systems from various universities where experiments are available in form of SCORM [11] entities. This way the RLMS meets the pedagogical needs of laboratory education equivalent to that of the on-site laboratories.…”