Title :
Sharing Laboratories across Different Remote Laboratory Systems
Author :
Ordu, Pablo ; García-Zubia, Javier ; López-de-Ipi, Diego ; Bailey, Philip H. ; Hardison, James L. ; DeLong, Kimberly ; Harward, V. Judson
Author_Institution :
Deusto Inst. of Technol., DeustoTech Univ. of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
Abstract :
An educational remote laboratory is a software and hardware tool that enables students to remotely access real equipment located in the university as if they were in a hands-on-lab session. In order to be able to increase the curricula of universities, software infrastructures and toolkits that make the development and maintenance of remote laboratories easier arose, such as the MIT iLab project, the Labshare Sahara project, or WebLab-Deusto. Making different systems collaborate at infrastructure level is highly desirable so as to successfully share laboratories with different characteristics. This contribution summarizes the integration of WebLab-Deusto laboratories inside the iLab Shared Architecture, as well as the integration of iLab batch laboratories inside WebLab-Deusto.
Keywords :
Internet; educational institutions; educational technology; groupware; software tools; virtual instrumentation; WebLab-Deusto laboratories; educational remote laboratory; hands-on-lab session; hardware tool; iLab Shared Architecture; iLab batch laboratories; infrastructure level collaboration; laboratory sharing; remote laboratory systems; remotely equipment access; software infrastructures; software toolkits; university; Bridges; Educational institutions; Environmental factors; Remote laboratories; Servers; Software; distance learning; interoperability; remote laboratories; technology enhanced learning;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Rome
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1642-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2012.137
