VISIR: Experiences and Challenges

Tawfik, Mohamed; Sancristobal, Elio; Martín, Sergio; Gil, Charo; Pesquera, Alberto; Losada, Pablo; Díaz, Gabriel; Peire, J.; Castro, Manuel; García-Zubía, Javier; Hernández, Unai; Orduña, Pablo; Angulo, Ignacio; Costa-Lobo, Cristina; Marques, Arcelina; Viegas, Clara; Alves, Gustavo R.

doi:10.3991/ijoe.v8i1.1879

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“…Federating the existing nodes, plus the ones that will be installed in the VISIR+ project will allow swiftly routing the clients' requests to whichever node can respond. Notice the evidence available on the use of the current VISIR systems from all parts of the world [3][4][5][6][7][8][9].…”

Section: Pilar Federation -Objectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

VISIR federation: Initial building steps: PILAR experience — Work in progress

Kreiter

Oros

Pester

et al. 2017

2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)

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Abstract-Collaborative working as well as sharing resources and knowledge represent key points in today's development in all fields, including education. Know-how transfer and collaboration in learning and teaching are aspects promoted and sustained by institutional management as well as the European initiatives. Thus, leading to the idea of a federation which will facilitate engineering education. A consortium formed by five European universities decided to join efforts to provide to the community a federation, which could be used by different stakeholders interest in teaching, learning or developing new skills in the field of electronics. The proposed remote system, Virtual Instruments System in Reality, or VISIR in short, offers the possibility of working with real equipment and obtain the real-world/ real-time measurements. By developing such a VISIR federation some of the constraints of using remote labs, the ones associated with development and maintenance costs, and scalability, will be minimized. This paper aims to present the initial steps for developing a VISIR Federation, which is also the primary goal of PILARPlatform Integration of Laboratories based on the Architecture of visiR project.

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Section: Pilar Federation -Objectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

VISIR federation: Initial building steps: PILAR experience — Work in progress

Kreiter

Oros

Pester

et al. 2017

2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)

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“…Based on the interaction of a simulation of real equipment and real instruments at distance, VISIR creates a real electronic lab environment to the student, which can be accessed at any time and from anywhere as long as the student has a PC connected to Internet [15]. Within such environment, student interact with real instruments and electric / electronic components.…”

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Spreading remote lab usage a system — A community — A Federation

Alves

Fidalgo

Marques

et al. 2016

2016 2nd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE)

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Abstract-Experiments have been at the heart of scientific development and education for centuries. From the outburst of Information and Communication Technologies, virtual and remote labs have added to hands-on labs a new conception of practical experience, especially in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics education. This paper aims at describing the features of a remote lab named Virtual Instruments System in Reality, embedded in a community of practice and forming the spearhead of a federation of remote labs. More particularly, it discusses the advantages and disadvantages of remote labs over virtual labs as regards to scalability constraints and development and maintenance costs. Finally, it describes an actual implementation in an international community of practice of engineering schools forming the embryo of a first world wide federation of Virtual Instruments System in Reality nodes, under the framework of a project funded by the Erasmus+ Program.

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“…The subjects related with VISIR at this moment are: Digital Electronics, Computer Technology, Analog Electronics, Circuits and Physics [17]. A major goal achieved by applying VISIR at Al-Quds University is not only using it in future experiments as a complementary asset to traditional hands-on labs, but also some kind of academic collaboration between international universities will be established, for example, through sharing devices, equipment and instrumentations.…”

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“…Irrespective of the evaluation techniques mentioned above, the survey questions of this study were mostly established using the survey of Tawfik et al [17] since it was previously used to evaluate the same remote lab and, thus, it was proven for its appropriateness for this testing.…”

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A Two-Stage Assessment of the Remote Engineering Lab VISIR at Al-Quds University in Palestine

Odeh

Alves

et al. 2015

IEEE R. Iberoamericana Tecnologias Aprendizaje

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Abstract-Engineering labs are an essential part in engineering education, since they provide practical knowledge for students, illustrate concepts and principles, and improve technical skills. Remote labs allow devices, equipment, and instrumentations to be shared with other universities. In addition, they relax time and space constraints, and are capable of being adapted to the pace of each student; in the case, there was insufficient time in the laboratory. This paper describes an empirical study, which embeds two stages of assessment. In the first stage, we are concerned with finding out the level of flexibility when applying the engineering remote lab VISIR as a contemporary remote lab technology in the engineering faculty at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem in Palestine, and whether the engineering students will accept such technology to interact with in their future lab courses or not. In the second stage of the assessment study, a more in-depth comparative analysis will be carried out in order to have a categorization of VISIR in the landscape of the engineering labs, such as hands-on and simulations. The three lab approaches will be compared with each other by means of an experimental testing based on assessment criteria that are in accordance with the fundamental course objectives of engineering instructional labs: student's retention rate and satisfaction survey, as well as their performance.

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VISIR: Experiences and Challenges

Cited by 34 publications

References 6 publications

VISIR federation: Initial building steps: PILAR experience — Work in progress

VISIR federation: Initial building steps: PILAR experience — Work in progress

Spreading remote lab usage a system — A community — A Federation

A Two-Stage Assessment of the Remote Engineering Lab VISIR at Al-Quds University in Palestine

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