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The learning of Physics involves building up and using lab experiments. In turn, teachers must be trained in experimenting and using several resources that enable them to design valuable teaching strategies and learning activities. Thanks to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), virtual and remote labs can provide a framework where physical experiments can be developed. Altough remote...
The long-term goal of engineering education is to prepare students to work as engineers. Being a practical profession, laboratories play a crucial role in illustrating concepts and principles as well as improving technical skills. In the last decades the use of online resources (simulators and remote labs) has been growing, either as a complementary and/or as an alternative way of developing experimental...
Experimentation is crucial in science teaching at any education level. Students' motivation and collaborative work are also essential in order to achieve positive learning outcomes. This article portrays the implementation of remote experimentation using VISIR in a Physics subject at high-school level. Qualitative and quantitative data were analyzed for this particular case study in order to shed...
This paper aims at introducing the first intensive use of a remote lab named as VISIR by lecturers and students from Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura, Universidad Nacional de Rosario. The research was carried under the VISIR + project. It is a pilot test in which 17 students from the third year of an Electronic Engineering degree took part. The pilot test was developed in order...
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...
This paper describes how a new Erasmus Plus project, PILAR, (Platform Integration of Laboratories based on the Architecture of visiR), is being developed and how the startup of the partnership and the project is reinforcing the VISIR (Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality) network and the Special Interest Group of VISIR under the Global Online Laboratory Consortium (GOLC) of the International Association...
Remote experimentation has long conflicted with security policies imposed by networks administrators. To provide external access to experiment servers in a university, security measures are demanded. Such leads to an excessive dependency on the IT departments for services configuration and maintenance. In the present work, modifications in ISA/ELSA architecture are proposed to circumvent those problems...
Matlab is a widely used tool in industry and education for numerical computation of mathematical problems. Former versions of Matlab had a built-in Web server which was used to run scripts over the web browser. Newer versions of Matlab lack this functionality. However, recent versions of Matlab allow users to interact with REST-based web services. Considering the above, this paper does not only demonstrate...
As the Internet of Things evolves and matures, the number of connected devices and the amount of generated data grows exponentially. Integrative standards and API design patterns are required to deal with this fast growth, while easing machine to machine communication and promoting ubiquitous computing. This paper discusses the W3C Web of Things model that is currently in the process of standardization,...
With the advancement of technology and universities' aspiration to reach more students including students studying in distance mode, remote laboratories are gaining popularity and becoming a common feature of STEM programs. Remote laboratories make laboratory equipment more accessible to both on-campus and off-campus students. However, assistance to students experimenting outside the scheduled supervised...
Relationships among physical quantities (PQs) express fundamental laws of the Universe. Physics equations represent relationships among PQs and therefore encode the basic knowledge of physics. System of PQs is the natural framework of physics and can be used as a guideline for informational modelling of various scientific aspects of physics. Relationships among PQs can be used for creation of semantic...
Environmental monitoring stations providing high frequency data over a multiyear time frame are not common in estuaries. These systems are designed to record extended time-series at high frequency that are of great value for decision makers and the scientific community. However, the continuous acquisition of good quality data at estuaries is generally challenged by harsh environmental conditions....
Although for the general public marine oil pollution happens when an oil tanker sinks in the ocean or an accident occurs in an oil platform, most of the oil entering the world ocean does it along less obvious paths. This research work focus on operational spills. It provides a first indication of the uncertainty associated to backtracking simulations using solutions from several operational models...
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