a grid of remote laboratory for teaching electronics

Testing theories through practice is an important approach to teaching, especially in scientific and technical curricula. Often, lack of resources and logistics problems makes practice impossible. During these last years, several attempts to find an alternative to in-laboratory experiments have been proposed from many researchers. In this paper we present our approach to remote laboratories challenge. We outline the model we have created and the prototype we have implemented and validated. Finally, we propose a grid-oriented vision of our work that could be an effective solution to support experimental activity in e-learning efforts among a scattered community of users

survey of remote laboratories using service oriented architectures

Remote access to real laboratories can enhance traditional educational paths with practical experiences. However, most of the existing remote laboratories cannot communicate with each other and they are not yet completely integrated with common educational platforms such as Learning Management Systems. These problems could be tackled by offering to end users remote experiments as distributed services using web service technology. The paper examines the architectures of remote laboratories developed by three institutions: DIBE ISILab (Internet Shared Instrumentation Laboratory), HPI DCL (Distributed Control Laboratory) and MIT iLab. Their front-end services are compared and discussed. The paper details how end-user applications interact with these remote labs and reports on the results of a preliminary test of interoperability between remote labs, providing a hint on how different remote experiments can be shared between different institutions

KP-LAB Knowledge Practices Laboratory -- External release of end-user applications

deliverablesThis deliverable describes the M24 release of the End user applications for knowledge practices software v2.0.0. The deliverable includes the technical development performed until M24 (January 2008) within WP6 according to Description of Work 2.1 and D6.4 M21 specification of end-user applications. The current release is comprised of two set of tools: 1. Shared Space Tool The shared space and the accompanying support material can be found on the Internet at: http://2d.mobile.evtek.fi:8080/shared-space 2. Map-It. The installer program for Map-It v2.0.0 is available at: http://www.kp-lab.org/intranet/testable-tools/kp-lab-tools/map-it/map-it-2-0.0 Please consult the "Getting Started" Note before installing and using Map-It: http://www.kp-lab.org/intranet/testable-tools/kp-lab-tools/map-it/getting-started-with-map-it 3. Change Laboratory tools The release targeted for the end users participating in the trials planned to be conducted in the CL Working Knot can be accessed via the following link: http://2d.mobile.evtek.fi:8080/shared-space/cl.html Anyone who wishes to try the software out but is not participating in the Change Laboratory trials should use the development deployment on: http://mielikki.mobile.evtek.fi/shared-space/cl.html The M24 release of Semantic Multimedia Annotation tools is still delayed. The release of CASS Memo Client has been postponed to be included in the M28 release in DoW3

Evolving and Validating Annotations in Web-based Collaborative Environments through Ontology Matching

none3A. Locoro; V. Mascardi; A-M. ScapollaLocoro, Angela; Mascardi, Viviana; Scapolla, ANNA MARIN

Survey of Remote Laboratories Using Service Oriented Architectures

Remote access to real laboratories can enhance traditional educational paths with practical experiences. However, most of the existing remote laboratories cannot communicate with each other and they are not yet completely integrated with common educational platforms such as Learning Management Systems. These problems could be tackled by offering to end users remote experiments as distributed services using web service technology. The paper examines the architectures of remote laboratories developed by three institutions: DIBE ISILab (Internet Shared Instrumentation Laboratory), HPI DCL (Distributed Control Laboratory) and MIT iLab. Their front-end services are compared and discussed. The paper details how end-user applications interact with these remote labs and reports on the results of a preliminary test of interoperability between remote labs, providing a hint on how different remote experiments can be shared between different institutions

NLP AND ONTOLOGY MATCHING: A SUCCESSFUL COMBINATION FOR TRIALOGICAL LEARNING

Trialogical Learning refers to those forms of learning where learners are collaboratively developing, transforming, or creating shared objects of activity in a systematic fashion. In order to be really productive, systems supporting Trialogical Learning must rely on intelligent services to let knowledge co-evolve with social practices, in an automatic or semi-automatic way, according to the users ’ emerging needs and practical innovations. These requirements raise problems related to knowledge evolution, content retrieval and classification, dynamic suggestion of relationships among knowledge objects. In this paper, we propose to exploit Natural Language Processing and Ontology Matching techniques for facing the problems above. The Knowledge Practice Environment of the KP-Lab project has been used as a test bed for demonstrating the feasibility of our approach.

A Web-Based Laboratory for Digital Signal Processing

This paper presents a web-based laboratory to practice with embedded systems and in particular with Digital Signal Processing. The laboratory has been developed using a service oriented architecture to guarantee flexibility and interoperability with different electronic devices. Moreover it provides end users with a web based interface directly accessible through Internet and employees a wide range of modern Web 2.0 technologies. This approach allows creating complex web applications avoiding to install any plug-in on usersâ?? browsers. The paper presents how the remote laboratory can be used in an e-learning scenario and details how it can be integrated in feasible educational path based on common learning platforms such as Moodle

Service-oriented architectures for distributed cooperative instrumentation Grids

A large number of areas, including scientific research, phenomena monitoring, environment sensing and distance education, are looking for new infrastructures to set up distributed measurement systems. They need combining measurement instrumentation, networks of cooperating low-cost nodes, control processes, and computing facilities. This chapter shows how this goal can be achieved by extending the concept of distributed cooperating resources to deal with all these components in a similar way and proposes a Grid-based middleware to set up the distributed measurement system

A Web-Based Laboratory for Digital Signal Processing

This paper presents a web-based laboratory to practice with embedded systems and in particular with Digital Signal Processing. The laboratory has been developed using a service oriented architecture to guarantee flexibility and interoperability with different electronic devices. Moreover it provides end users with a web based interface directly accessible through Internet and employees a wide range of modern Web 2.0 technologies. This approach allows creating complex web applications avoiding to install any plug-in on users’ browsers. The paper presents how the remote laboratory can be used in an e-learning scenario and details how it can be integrated in feasible educational path based on common learning platforms such as Moodle