Remote laboratories: Uncovering the true costs

Lowe, David; Villefromoy, Michel de la; Jona, Kemi; Yeoh, L. A.

doi:10.1109/rev.2012.6293109

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“…[35] provides a cost model for remote laboratories, and Labicom [36] actually charges small amounts of money for its use. Freemium models have also been proposed (where the access is free but certain features are provided for registered users), and in certain circumstances the laboratories can be free but still require detailed information about its use so as to find other external funding mechanisms.…”

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confidence: 99%

An Extensible Architecture for the Integration of Remote and Virtual Laboratories in Public Learning Tools

Orduña

Zutin

Govaerts

et al. 2015

IEEE R. Iberoamericana Tecnologias Aprendizaje

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Remote laboratories are software and hardware tools that allow students to remotely access real equipment located in universities. The integration of remote laboratories in Learning Tools (Learning Management Systems, Content Management Systems or Personal Learning Environments) has been achieved to integrate remote laboratories as part of the learning curricula. A cross-institutional initiative called gateway4labs has been created to perform this integration extensible to multiple remote laboratories in multiple learning tools. This contribution focuses on describing this initiative and, in particular, how opening it to public systems (where users do not need to be registered) produces new technical and organizational challenges due to the public availability of labs. Additionally, this contribution shows integrations of systems that were not previously addressed in this initiative, such as PhET or ViSH, as well as a new approach for integrating supported laboratories in external specifications such as the Smart Device one through OpenSocial.

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Section: Tradeoff Between Publishing Laboratories or Keeping Them mentioning

confidence: 99%

An Extensible Architecture for the Integration of Remote and Virtual Laboratories in Public Learning Tools

Orduña

Zutin

Govaerts

et al. 2015

IEEE R. Iberoamericana Tecnologias Aprendizaje

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“…The advantages of remote and virtual labs are in saving time, space, and cost. 7 On the other hand, Lowe et al 8 presented a case study and literature survey about the effective cost of remote labs. The presented survey shows that 24% of authors did not mention the cost, 68% uses the cost as rationale for remote labs, and only 8% do a direct discussion of cost.…”

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Electric circuit interactive laboratory

Khaddaj

Marmar

2015

International Journal of Electrical Engineering & Education

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Ensuring the best teaching quality and promoting the critical thinking and hands-on experience of students are main concerns in the continuous development plan of the laboratories in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the American University of Beirut. To this end, laboratory course materials are not only subject to constant updates, but also innovative teaching methods and evaluation techniques are developed. This paper outlines a new teaching methodology and novel academic Moodle-based evaluation techniques applied in a lab environment specific to Electric Circuits Laboratory which is a basic required course for all students majoring either in Computer and Communications Engineering or in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. The objectives of this course are to familiarize students with various circuit and electronic devices and their applications, to teach them how to use basic laboratory instruments, and to introduce them to laboratory techniques to implement and analyze electronic circuits. The motivation to implement the new changes was due to many observations and problems encountered while teaching the course for several years. The inventive teaching and evaluation approach have been applied so far for three semesters. Significant improvement in students' comprehension of the material, depicted in a considerable increase in class average of the final exam, proved the success of the adopted method. Besides, an increase in class participation and involvement was noticed and course assessment done by students scored very high.

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