Educational Portal Development Model for Implementing Design for Change

Abstract

We analyze the development of educational (EDU) web portals from the perspective of meta-design. Here, we focus on the technical issues of meta-design only and consider design-for-change. Our contribution is a variability model based on the variability analysis, generic portal development processes, sub-processes and their relationships. We analyze the interface design problem in the context of the EDU Portal development and consider the implementation of the proposed model using meta-programming.

Development of a Web-Based Control and Robotic Applications Laboratory for Control Engineering Education

“…In this paper, the design and development of webbased laboratory experiments on liquid level-flow system and a robot manipulator have been examined and their impact from both teaching and research points of view has been discussed. New and attractive features, such as a web-camera capturing real-time video, have been incorporated [4][5][6][7][12][13][14][15][16]. Our approach comes to propose the supervision and the control of a Web-based real laboratory, in order to minimize the process access time obstacle when performing online laboratory operations.…”

“…For both systems, the main operating actions are located in the general control panel frame, since these actions do not vary based on the type of experiment. The specific commands to operate the plant, as well as parameters to modify the characteristics of the reference signal and of the implemented controller, are found in the user console panel [5,[11][12][13][14]. Sliders are used to enter continuous data and to facilitate operating the plant.…”

“…The diagrams are generated remotely on the communication server using NI Measurement Studio graphical components. In order to achieve both optimal speed and results, these diagrams are directly transferred to the Webpage [4,7,13]. Web pages have three different interfaces for On-Off, PID and Fuzzy controllers.…”