Promoting Remote and Virtual labs in Portugal

Online experimentation comprises remote and virtual experimentation aided by virtual reality components, augmented reality, sensorial devices, live videos and other tools as interactive videos and serious games which promote user immersion in virtual environments recreating the real experience. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (FCG) has recognized in online experimentation its credits with relevance in today's education as future pillars in industry, in research and in medicine either in training or in specific applications. The Portuguese consortium of online experimentation, created in 2011, is now potentiated by some additional resources of online experimentation based in new different technologies and contributing for STEM, higher education, lifelong learning and dissemination. In a continuous effort the Portuguese Consortium has been supported by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The present work pretends to make a follow up of these developments in the context of the Experiment@Portugal 2012 project.

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“…-Dissemination of experimentation trying to help to overcome the problem of today's deficit of youngsters in Science and Technology degrees [10].…”

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Online experimentation: Experiment@Portugal 2012

Cardoso

Restivo

Quintas

et al. 2014

2014 11th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)

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“…Laboratory activities, fundamental for the development of skills related to problem solving, the linkage between theory and practice, experimentation and encouragement of creativity, can now benefit from the online labs ( [1], [2], [3]). …”

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confidence: 99%

Remote Experiments as an Asset for Learning Programming in Python

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Abstract-The online experimentation is in expansion inHigher Education Institutions, with a dynamic extension to all scientific areas. The integration of online labs in higher educational courses constitutes a significant financial saving way for the institutions with multiple benefits for student's learning. Without access and usage time restrictions, these labs provide a wide range of experiments, performed individually or in groups, repeated as often as needed, without any space or time restrictions, just imposing the Internet access is available and in good conditions. This paper describes a use case application of a web platform that integrates, monitors and controls different technologies, such as Wireless Sensor Networks, Virtual Sensor Networks and Data Acquisition Boards, through an Internet accessible RESTful API, using low-cost devices such as the Raspberry Pi. In this context, a remote laboratory is developed for students programming in Python, based on such platform to improve their programming skills, overcome their difficulties in CS1 and CS2 courses, and give the ability to interact to physical world through practical examples.

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