Providing Equivalent Learning Activities with Software-Based Remote Access Laboratories

Providing Equivalent Learning Activities with Software-Based Remote Access Laboratories

Laboratory-based learning activities are important components of engineering and surveying education and it is difficult to offering practical activities to distance education students. Remote Access Laboratory (RAL) systems are widely discussed as learning tools to offer students remote access to rigs or hardware. In some disciplines laboratory activities are purely software based and RAL syst...

Remote Laboratories support within Teaching and Learning Activities

The concepts of learning and teaching appear somehow mixed although their use emphasizes who is at the center of the process. Bologna Declaration has put the stress on the “What students do?” paradigm, shifting the center of the process to the student. Such paradigm also supports life long learning objectives. The remote laboratory concept provides a tool to sustain this shift towards a student...

Access Control for Shared Remote Laboratories

Remote experiments can be shared and exchanged among educational institutions in the form of reusable learning objects. The paper discusses different solutions for authentication and authorization needs when “Lab Learning Objects” are used through the Learning Management System of an institution to run a remote experiment based on physical resources (rigs) provided by an external experiment pro...

Merging Remote Laboratories and Enquiry-based Learning for STEM Education

Practical learning activities are effective ways to increase the interest of students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) topics. Attracting school students to STEM careers is a challenge in many parts of the world. Remote Access Laboratories (RAL) allow for offsite control of state-of-the-art science and technology experiments. Such learning activities, while mostly used...

Distance Learning Remote Laboratories Using LabVIEW