Remote experiments in education: A survey over different platforms and application fields

Abstract

Distance education as well as remote experimentation, is a modern field that aims to deliver education to students who are not physically present on their class or their testbed instrumentation. Nowadays, more and more students and educators/instructors rather than attending courses in person, communicate with the educational material at times of their own through Internetbased technologies and services that allows them to interact in real time or in an asynchronous mode. Remote access is simplified, since Internet allows computer users to connect to other computers and information is stored and processed easily, wherever they may be across the world. This paper provides a straightforward categorization of remote experimentations in Education according to the platform used as the medium for conducting the experiments and the scientific field in which they apply to. This contribution aims to be a starting point to those interested in entering the world of remote experiments, by presenting work from 2005 up to date.

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