Distance and Virtual Laboratories

Building Virtual Laboratories - A Web Based Experience

 Through virtual labs, students will have access to educational and research facilities in order to improve their skills executing practical experiments in virtual environments that are actually based on physical installations rather than on simulation software. This paper relates the experience of implementing a virtual lab to support an on-line course on DSP microprocessors. A distance educa...

A Multi-Agents System to Support a Virtual Laboratory

In order to show the different possibilities offered by the distance learning, we are looking at the virtual laboratories which benefited from the new training technologies. This approach has the following advantage: reducing the training cost, schedule flexibility, ease of diffusion and the accessibility of the training by a larger audience. In this paper, we present an agents based generic ar...

A Framework for Implementing Virtual and Remote Laboratories in Scientific Course

This work describes the experience of the authors regarding the design, development, analysis, and exploitation of web-based technologies for creating an online experimentation framework with distance education purposes. The framework we propose is specially designed for scientific and technical courses that require a quite important presence of experimentation. It supports the development of v...

Real-time collaboration of virtual laboratories through the Internet

Web-based learning environments are becoming increasingly popular in higher education. One of the most important web learning resources is the virtual laboratory (VL), which gives students an easy way for training and learning through the Internet. Moreover, on-line collaborative communication represents a practical method to transmit the knowledge and experience from the teacher to students ov...

Investigating the Effectiveness of Virtual Laboratories in an Undergraduate Biology Course

In the last 20 years online distance education has become a valuable andragogical tool. The purpose of the current study was designed to investigate student perceptions of biology virtual laboratories. Research findings indicate that students prefer to participate in virtual labs compared to traditional (e.g., face-to-face) labs. Data also indicated that students perceived higher learning gains...

Distance Learning Remote Laboratories Using LabVIEW