A sustainable approach to laboratory experimentation

Felgueiras, Carlos; Costa, Ricardo; Alves, Gustavo R.; Viegas, Clara; Fidalgo, André; Marques, Arcelina; Lima, Natércia; Castro, Manuel; García-Zubía, Javier; Pester, Andreas; Kulesza, Wlodek; Silva, Juarez Bento; Pavani, Ana M. B.; Pozzo, María Isabel; Marchisio, Susana; Gaztambide‐Fernández, Rubén; Oliveira, Vanderli Fava de; Schlichting, Luis Carlos Martinhago

doi:10.1145/3362789.3362952

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“…Some critical studies refer to remote labs' design based on sustainability principles [47][48][49][50].…”

Section: Designing Remote Labs Upon Sustainability Principlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another critical study focuses on the sustainability of system architecture and teaching outcomes [49]. Finally, a specific study points out that a sustainable approach for remote engineering labs could be based on well-designed experiments which favor a "learning from failure process" and could promote creativity [50]. In parallel, the studies mentioned before emphasizing the need for efficient management of resources.…”

Section: Designing Remote Labs Upon Sustainability Principlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some studies refer to remote labs design based on sustainability principles [47][48][49][50]. However, remote lab effectiveness has yet to be associated with student performance.…”

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A Prediction Model for Remote Lab Courses Designed upon the Principles of Education for Sustainable Development

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The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a cease to the physical-presence operation of many laboratory-based university courses. As a response, higher education courses turned into distance learning. Distance education can foster sustainability through resource savings offered by the benefits of technology use. Therefore, there is a necessity to establish a pathway for sustainability practices concerning the increasing distance education enrollment and technological progress. Under the previous concept, this research paper presents a remote lab for the “Data Acquisition Systems” course, delivered during the pandemic as the digital twin of its respective conventional lab. This remote lab was designed on the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) principles to help students develop critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration competencies. This paper aims to develop a concrete framework for identifying factors that critically affect students’ performance during remote lab courses. The analysis is based on students’ engagement data collected by the NI-ELVIS remote lab measurement system during the spring academic semester of 2020 at the University of West Attica, Greece. Furthermore, the paper develops a competent prediction model for students at risk of failing the lab. The findings indicate that content comprehension and theory-exercise familiarization were the main risk factors in the case of the specific remote lab. In detail, a unit increase in content comprehension led to a 2.7 unit decrease in the probability of the risk occurrence. In parallel, a unit increase in theory familiarization through exercises led to a 3.2 unit decrease in the probability of the risk occurrence. The findings also underlined that risk factors such as critical thinking were associated with ESD competencies. Besides this, the benefits of delivering distance-learning labs according to the proposed methodology include environmental benefits by contributing to resource and energy savings since students who are about to fail can be located early and assisted.

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“…Some critical studies refer to remote labs' design based on sustainability principles [47][48][49][50].…”

Section: Designing Remote Labs Upon Sustainability Principlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Designing Remote Labs Upon Sustainability Principlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Actually, practical experimentation is considered one of the most critical gaps that facing the success of distance learning process in schools and universities. So, it is necessary to focus on the development of efficient and reliable remotecontrolled laboratories to accommodate the practical parts in the entire educational courses and programs [1]- [2]. Remote experimentation arises from different motivations: It allows teachers to better demonstrate physical concepts during a traditional lecture, by simply connecting to the remote lab and running the experiments.…”

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Remote Controlled Laboratory Experiments for Engineering Education in the Post-COVID-19 Era: Concept and Example

Mohammed

Zoghby

Elmesalawy

2020

2020 2nd Novel Intelligent and Leading Emerging Sciences Conference (NILES)

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The worldwide outbreak due to COVID-19 pandemic lead to a major change in the life style in general and in the education system in specific. To help contain the impacts of COVID-19, universities and schools need to strongly shift to various electronic education models such as online learning, distance learning and blended learning. One of the crucial models that support the success of distance learning especially in engineering education is the remote-controlled experimentations, which allow students to execute the required practical work in a similar way as it conducted in the physical laboratories if it is appropriately designed. This paper introduces an integrated solution for improving the remotely controlled working on the educational laboratory experiments for electrical engineering sector. The proposed solution consists of four main components: Internet of remote-controlled things that represent the required experimentation devices, cloud platform, TCP/IP Internet communication connection, and finally the control and monitoring application. A complete experiment for phasor measurement unit (PMU) system as an example is deployed in the university laboratory with its all components which is completely controlled and managed remotely from the home through Internet. PMU is installed in a prototype of electrical substation with different types of loads. All required experimental data and results are successfully obtained and controlled through the developed system with the required accuracy and performance.

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“…In these projects, each partner was simultaneous a supplier and a user: each partner/user has access to many more resources (experiments, data, etc. ) In the Electric and Electronic Circuits area, VISIR is the best and well known remote laboratory, the longest-running and also the most documented, with more than one hundred technical and scientific publications (Felgueiras et al, 2019;García-Zubía et al, 2020), for which this CoP had a crucial role. In effect, VISIR was recognized as the best remote controlled laboratory by the Executive Committee of Global Online Laboratory Consortium, in 2015 ("IAOE: Winners for the GOLC Online Laboratory Award, 11 February 2015," n.d.).…”

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A sustainable approach to laboratory experimentation

Cited by 9 publications

References 14 publications

A Prediction Model for Remote Lab Courses Designed upon the Principles of Education for Sustainable Development

A Prediction Model for Remote Lab Courses Designed upon the Principles of Education for Sustainable Development

Remote Controlled Laboratory Experiments for Engineering Education in the Post-COVID-19 Era: Concept and Example

Fostering Experimental Competences Using Complementary Resources

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