Spreading remote lab usage a system — A community — A Federation

Alves, Gustavo R.; Fidalgo, André; Marques, Arcelina; Viegas, Clara; Felgueiras, Carlos; Costa, Ricardo; Lima, Natércia; Castro, Manuel; Díaz-Orueta, Gabriel; Ruiz, Elio San Cristóbal; García-Loro, Félix; García-Zubía, Javier; Hernández-Jayo, Unai; Kulesza, Wlodek; Gustavsson, Ingvar; Pester, Andreas; Zutin, Danilo Garbi; Schlichting, Luis Carlos Martinhago; Ferreira, Gabriela Lícia Santos; Bona, Daniel D. de; Silva, Juarez Bento da; Alves, João Bosco da Mota; Biléssimo, Simone Meister Sommer; Pavani, Ana M. B.; Lima, Delberis A.; Temporão, Guilherme P.; Marchisio, Susana; Concari, Sonia Beatriz; Lerro, Federico; Gaztambide‐Fernández, Rubén; Paz, Hector; Soria, Fernando; Almeida, Nival Nunes de; Oliveira, Vanderli Fava de; Pozzo, María Isabel; Dobboletta, Elsa

doi:10.1109/cispee.2016.7777722

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“…No more than 60 students can experiment with a VISIR system. However, as described in [31], a high number of concurrent users managed by a VISIR system causes delayed system responses when managing the requests and, consequently, a bad user experience in the platform. Thus, concurrent users in a VISIR system must be more restrictive than 60.…”

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PILAR: a Federation of VISIR Remote Laboratory Systems for Educational Open Activities

García-Loro

Cristóbal

Díaz

et al. 2018

2018 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)

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Social demands have promoted an educational approach based on an "anywhere and anytime" premise. Remote laboratories have emerged as the answer to the demands of technical educational areas for adapting themselves to this scenario. The result has not only benefit distance learning students but has provided new learning scenarios both for teachers and students as well as allowing a flexible approach to experimental topics. However, as any other solution for providing practical scenarios (hands-on labs, virtual labs or simulators), remote labs face several constraints inherited from the subsystems of its deployment  hardware (real instruments, equipment and scenario) and software (analog/digital conversions, communications, workbenches, etc.). This paper describes the Erasmus+ project Platform Integration of Laboratories based on the Architecture of visiR (PILAR) which deals with several units of the federation installed in different educational institutions and devoted to analog electronics and electrical circuits. Based on the limitations of remote labs, the need for the federation will be justified and its benefits will be described by taking advantage of its strengths. The challenges that have come up during the different stages and the different approaches to design are also going to be described and analyzed.

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PILAR: a Federation of VISIR Remote Laboratory Systems for Educational Open Activities

García-Loro

Cristóbal

Díaz

et al. 2018

2018 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)

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“…At the end of 2014, the IFSC-VISIR team was asked to participate in a project involving twelve institutions from six countries. This project aimed to transfer educational technology from Europe to other countries, using funds from the European Community's Erasmus+ Program [10].…”

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The VISIR Implementation Process at IFSC - problems, obstacles and solutions

Schlichting

Bona

Ferreira

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2018 XIII Technologies Applied to Electronics Teaching Conference (TAEE)

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In recent years, the use of remote laboratories applied to teaching has become more frequent in several educational institutions around the world. The benefits to the learning process are easy to verify. In addition, remote laboratories bring with their application, operational advantages associated to component inventory, equipment maintenance, security, plus other practical issues. Considering this general scenario, it is intuitive that the implementation of a remote laboratory and its use is easily recognized and accepted by the users, namely, students and teachers. This paper aims to present the obstacles and advantages observed in the implementation of the VISIR (Virtual Instruments Systems in Reality) remote lab at the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina -IFSC, as well as the obtained results.

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“…Federating the existing nodes, plus the ones that will be installed in the VISIR+ project will allow swiftly routing the clients' requests to whichever node can respond. Notice the evidence available on the use of the current VISIR systems from all parts of the world [3][4][5][6][7][8][9].…”

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VISIR federation: Initial building steps: PILAR experience — Work in progress

Kreiter

Oros

Pester

et al. 2017

2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)

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Abstract-Collaborative working as well as sharing resources and knowledge represent key points in today's development in all fields, including education. Know-how transfer and collaboration in learning and teaching are aspects promoted and sustained by institutional management as well as the European initiatives. Thus, leading to the idea of a federation which will facilitate engineering education. A consortium formed by five European universities decided to join efforts to provide to the community a federation, which could be used by different stakeholders interest in teaching, learning or developing new skills in the field of electronics. The proposed remote system, Virtual Instruments System in Reality, or VISIR in short, offers the possibility of working with real equipment and obtain the real-world/ real-time measurements. By developing such a VISIR federation some of the constraints of using remote labs, the ones associated with development and maintenance costs, and scalability, will be minimized. This paper aims to present the initial steps for developing a VISIR Federation, which is also the primary goal of PILARPlatform Integration of Laboratories based on the Architecture of visiR project.

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Spreading remote lab usage a system — A community — A Federation

Cited by 32 publications

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PILAR: a Federation of VISIR Remote Laboratory Systems for Educational Open Activities

PILAR: a Federation of VISIR Remote Laboratory Systems for Educational Open Activities

The VISIR Implementation Process at IFSC - problems, obstacles and solutions

VISIR federation: Initial building steps: PILAR experience — Work in progress

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