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This project seeks to demonstrate the use of remote experimentation and 3D virtual environments applied to the teaching-learning in the areas of exact sciences-physics. In proposing the combination of remote experimentation and 3D virtual worlds in teaching-learning process, we intend to achieve greater geographic coverage, contributing to the construction of new methodologies of teaching support,...
The Makerere University iLabs Project Team (iLabs@MAK) has designed and implemented online laboratories based on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) iLabs Shared Architecture (ISA), a scalable model that provides highly reliable generic experiment services independent of the experiment domains. This paper presents the design process of a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) FPGA-based...
This article presents the use of remote experimentation laboratories integrated with 3D virtual worlds and their application in the school context. The use of this educational tool is designed to complement the teaching and learning. Using technology in teaching to promote learning beyond the classroom. The remote experimentation has been configured as an alternative to promote this learning supplement...
This communication describes the second wave of improvements of the remote laboratory for secondary education iLabRS. The laboratory is intended to provide experimental activities to high school students using the University facilities. A secondary goal is to promote the interaction between both education levels. The new features include the control software which dynamically manages the LabView virtual...
The paper deals with the web-based implementation of the thermo-optical plant control. The control of the plant is based on the open-source Modelica-based modeling and simulation environment OpenModelica which originally is not designed for web-based applications. The paper shows one possible way how to circumvent this limitation.
In this presentation we would like to demonstrate collaborative aspects the remote laboratory NetLab. Many universities worldwide have developed remote laboratories that are now common part of laboratory component used by their students. NetLab is one of them, and is used by undergraduate students to perform experiments on electrical circuits. Unlike majority of other laboratories NetLab is from the...
The interest on educational remote laboratories has increased, as have the technologies involved in their development and deployment. These laboratories enable students to use real equipment located in the university from the Internet. This way, students can extend their personal learning experience by testing with real equipment what they are studying at home, or performing hands-on-lab sessions...
Hardware based remote laboratories are becoming essential for enhancing engineering education. Laboratory courses are being offered to remote students on a global scale with an added benefit the technology offers students; the opportunity to work with sophisticated equipment which may be too expensive for most schools to purchase. In this work, an interface platform is reported which is built to increase...
This paper documents on the programming and software design underpinning the Virtual Laboratory Practical Class (VLPC) program. This is an experiment simulation HTML5 web, which was designed to provide students with a virtual “pre-lab” experience where they can conduct an experiment and use equipment and techniques that they will encounter in a “live” pharmacology practical laboratory class.
This paper presents a queue simulation of a remote laboratory based on the VISIR Open Lab Platform designed at Blekinge Institute of Technology. A model of this VISIR laboratory and statistical distributions of how users interact with the system based on real log files are presented. The system is then simulated in order to determine how many concurrent students that can be allowed to use the laboratory...
This paper presents the conceptual design of a remote experimentation laboratory -a Weblab - for a thermal process plant, based on a systematic model for its planning and development. The adopted approach comprises three layers (physical system, hardware and software), being prescribed the following steps: definition of requirements; system technical specification; conceptual synthesis; analysis,...
This paper describes the implementation of an iLab Server using TAG4M devices. The iLab project (started by MIT) consists of a collection of online laboratories that allow carrying out remote engineering tasks. Our idea was to create such a server based on the TAG4M device - a Wi-Fi measurement device. This iLab implementation will be deployed on the existing iLab infrastructure hosted at the CVTC...
Educational remote laboratories are a software and hardware tool that allows students to remotely access real equipment located in the university as if they were in a hands-on-lab session. Since the equipment used by students is real, it has associated costs: laboratory development, hardware used and maintenance costs. Given the remote nature of the remote laboratories, institutions can share these...
This paper describes the study of creating clientless online interfaces for laboratories served through the iLab publishing system. Given the increased usage of the iLab Shared Architecture, for example the launch of the new iLab Europe website ( http://ilab-europe.net/ ) it seems like a good opportunity to study the potential of the iLab software. At present, iLab interfaces are being built using...
The UniSchooLabs project aims at creating an infrastructure supporting web access to remote/virtual labs and associated educational resources to engage learners with hands-on and minds-on activities in science, technology and math in schools.
Remote labs have become popular learning aids due to their versatility and considerable ease of utilisation as compared to their physical counterparts. At Makerere University, the remote labs are based on the standard Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) iLabs Shared Architecture (ISA) - a scalable and generic platform. Presented in this paper is such a lab, addressing the key practical aspects...
This paper discusses the requirements to provide controlled remote access to computer networking experiments and assignments and how these requirements can be fulfilled by an existing framework based on the use of “Lab Learning Objects” (LLOs) that are accessed through a Learning Management System (LMS).
Remote laboratories have been the subject of both technical development and pedagogic analysis. Much of the associated literature uses arguments regarding the relative value of these laboratories to justify the work in this area. Whilst many of these arguments are focused on pedagogic opportunity or logistical flexibility, they often also argue for the financial benefits that accrue from the ability...
Over the last decade remote laboratories have emerged as valuable educational resources, providing the potential for improved educational outcomes, student flexibility, richer laboratory experiences, and cross-institutional resource sharing. While there has been increasing attention given to the pedagogy that underpins the use of remote labs, the focus on the design of the lessons that take advantage...
An autonomous and multiplatform virtual laboratory for educational purposes is presented. The implemented platform includes a server with a SSH (Secure SHell) connection and a separated repository containing the virtual experiments. The programming of the experiments is implemented in Java language based tool, the EJS (Easy Java Simulation) and uses an external computation engine, for example Matlab...
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