Suite of educator tools to edit and browse experimental work contents with real-time measurement and validation

A set of software tools developed to facilitate the edition and presentation of the contents of experimental work is described. These tools are built to follow a learning method that uses a computer to guide and supervise the practical work in real time in a hardware laboratory. This method has been successfully applied for the last five years to an average of 450 students per year. The developed tools allow the extension of the method to any experimental matter. These tools structure a project as an electronic book that can be edited and configured on a user friendly windows style interface. A complementary browsing tool shows the content of the edited project and, depending on the browsing profile, validates the results against predetermined range data values as well as monitors the results against real time measurements. The measurement sequence is kept in a set of external files, so that they can be modified without the need of re-editing the whole project, following a modular approach.