An XML Modular Approach in the Building of Remote Labs by Students: A Way to Improve Learning

Abstract

Abstract-Practical knowledge is increasingly getting more attention in the higher education, especially in the field of engineering education. Engineering is a discipline which has, by its own definition, a large amount of practical contents. Allowing students to interact with real equipment can give to them a qualitative knowledge that cannot be obtained in other way. In this situation, remote laboratories are especially useful. This paper presents a way of reusing remote labs code by its XML representation. The idea is that students learn not only the basic subjects of the course, even more, that students do not only manipulate lab equipment. The idea is to give the students a practical way to check the potential of work organization and to give a taste of the powerfulness of code reusing, that is, in the end, a way to improve work efficiency.

An Integrated Example of Laboratories as a Service into Learning Management Systems

“…This was a breeding ground for new researchers to establish a seamless, interoperable, and shareable integrated architecture that encompasses remote laboratories from several Universities, in order to span their dissemination and inter-institutional operation. Under this concept a new type of middleware appears, called Remote Laboratory Management System (RLMS), such as MIT iLabs [5,6], WebLab-Deusto [7], Labshare Sahara [8]), RELATED [9], or the proposed in [10]. These RLMSs provide development toolkits to incorporate remote laboratories, as well as management tools and common services.…”

Multifunctional Remote Laboratories for Real Experiments, Engineering Processes, and Manufacturing Methods

“…For comparison with (1), any algebraic system U in mathematics is also defined as a triplet: U = < A, F, P>, (4) where A is a base set of elements in U; F is a set of mathematical operations; and P is a set of predicates on A [10].…”

“…Remote accessible labs for real experiments (RALREs) or real remote laboratories (RRLs) are an important topic of discussion in current scientific and pedagogical papers [1][2][3][4][5][6]. The possible benefits of such laboratories are as follows:…”