Remote labs as learning services in the educational arena

Sancristobal, Elio; Castro, Manuel; Martín, Sergio; Tawkif, Mohamed; Pesquera, Alberto; Gil, Rosario; Díaz, Gabriel; Peire, J.

doi:10.1109/educon.2011.5773298

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“…The lab will be managed by means of a Remote Lab Management System (RLMS) able to interact with the University web-platform and with web-platform by means of a middleware. This implementation will facilitate the inter-institutional sharing of labs and the interoperability with heterogeneous systems [8][9].…”

Section: Academic Context IImentioning

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Photovoltaic System as a Remote Didactic Laboratory for Electrical Engineering Courses

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Tronconi

2015

Int. J. Onl. Eng.

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Abstract-Remote laboratories are increasingly being used in academic courses, especially in science and engineering. New control systems allow the development of even complex experiments with a low cost. In this paper we present a remote laboratory that reproduces a small-scale photovoltaic system, including a solar panels and lights, a charge controller, a battery and a dummy load. A Raspberry PI microcontroller is used to send the different inputs to the laboratory, handling commands, measuring some electrical quantities and provide remote access via the web. The laboratory, developed with the involvement of graduating students, will be used in the Master courses of electrical engineering. Particular attention has been paid on the development of hardware and software, to use the developed laboratory as a model for the realization of other experiments.

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Section: Academic Context IImentioning

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Photovoltaic System as a Remote Didactic Laboratory for Electrical Engineering Courses

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Tronconi

2015

Int. J. Onl. Eng.

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“…iLab [19], Labshare [20], and Weblab Deusto [21]), or integrating remote laboratories within LMSs to take the advantages of the services provides by LMSs such as communication tools, administration, and assessments (e.g. the middleware architecture described in [22][23][24][25], and LiLa [26]), or indexing remote laboratories within a metadata repository in order to facilitate for researchers to allocation of information about remote labs dispersed among many universities (e.g. Lab2go [27] and iLab Central [28]).…”

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European Online Master Degree Program for Addressing Labor Market Demands

Tawfik¹

2012

Int. J. Onl. Eng.

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Abstract-Demands and needs of labor markets have always been seldom concerned by providers of educational programs. Most of the educational curricula revolve around the theoretical concepts and their evolution without contemplating their purpose of deployments and application. This is common in most of the engineering curricula and the applied science. In this contribution, we present a new European project, Remote-labs Access in Internet-based Performance-Centered Learning Environment for Curriculum Support (RIPLECS) that aims to mitigate these issues by providing an official inter-institutional European master degree program in Information and Communication System (ICS). In order to globalize the master and to, at least, guarantee its accordance with the European education requirements, the program is conducted online across five European institutions and is oriented to labor market needs for qualified graduates, with special focus on realizing realworld experiments in each subject remotely, which tackle many geographical and time constrains. The network architecture of RIPLECS platform enables world-wide distribution of learning resources by utilizing multiple Web servers at several European universities, within a single network topology. The paper discusses the project development stages, implementation and the expected outcomes.

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“…Acquiring qualitative knowledge is one of the most important things in control engineering education [1][2][3]. Giving students a taste of real situations, the behavior of measure instruments and how does the control action work, is a vital aspect nowadays.…”

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Practical experiences on building structured remote and virtual laboratories from the student's point of view

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Sánchez

Aliane

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2012 Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings

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Nowadays, the use of remote laboratories is a common feature in order to get students involved in practical experiences. This is particularly important in distance learning environment. The regular practice is to develop a particular laboratory, required by the student competence's curricula. Usually, this involves a lack of methodology or a standard procedure so, new developments must be done to include new laboratories, additionally so many "manual" procedures are required. RELATED (REmote LABoratory Extended) it's used to solve these issues. In this paper, a practical experience of the structured development process of a virtual laboratory, using RELATED framework, will be presented from the point of view of students. This virtual laboratory is a simple signal generator. This signal generator will be used to generate a reference position for the height of the ball of an electromagnetic levitation system in a control experiment. Finally, responses of surveys made by students will be presented, in order to get satisfaction results of using/development of virtual/remote laboratories using RELATED.Index Terms -remote experimenting, virtual and remote laboratories, software development, services and facilities, practical experience II. INTRODUCTIONAcquiring qualitative knowledge is one of the most important things in control engineering education [1-3]. Giving students a taste of real situations, the behavior of measure instruments and how does the control action work, is a vital aspect nowadays. All these things can be done with laboratory experiments although it can be tricky with a large amount of students or in distance learning environment, as it is proposed by UNED (National Distance University of Spain) in its official degrees.The idea is for the students to be able to perform real experiments [4][5], in real time, on real equipment, but over the Internet. This idea is in fact a widely discussed issue. In this general context there are many works, but all these remote and virtual laboratories are punctual efforts of different research groups. The use of the software and hardware of different universities is not contemplated in any case, not taking advantage of the work previously carried out by others. This is to say, a lack of methodology or a standard for the construction of networks of virtual/remote laboratories based on previous developments. Also, services and facilities for all of these laboratories are not present.RELATED framework [6] proposes a structured methodology of remote/virtual labs development and, also, provides common facilities as user management, booking, basic visualization (trend graphs and direct interaction using interactive variables), data logging and experimental session's control. A RLAB (Remote LABoratory) system is defined using a formal specification (which is LEDML, based on XML). The main component is an experiment, which is defined on the laboratory XML specification. To integrate a laboratory as a RLAB system is only necessary to develop local access to laboratory equipme...

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Remote labs as learning services in the educational arena

Cited by 35 publications

References 5 publications

Photovoltaic System as a Remote Didactic Laboratory for Electrical Engineering Courses

Photovoltaic System as a Remote Didactic Laboratory for Electrical Engineering Courses

European Online Master Degree Program for Addressing Labor Market Demands

Practical experiences on building structured remote and virtual laboratories from the student's point of view

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