Collaborative Web Labs as a Service: Challenges and opportunities

Author

Bochicchio, Mario A. ; Longo, Antonella

Author_Institution

Dept. of Innovation Eng., Univ. of Salento, Lecce, Italy

fYear

2011

fDate

12-12 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Collaborative Web Laboratories are the last frontier of virtual environments in education. As Internet speed grows up and academic networks reach more students and researchers, universities take interest in sharing laboratory services to increase the spectrum of offered facilities. The aim of the paper is to discuss the opportunities and issues to manage and deliver Collaborative Web Laboratories as a Service in an academic scenario.

Keywords

Web services; cloud computing; computer aided instruction; educational institutions; groupware; virtual instrumentation; Internet; Web service; academic networks; collaborative Web laboratories; collaborative learning tools; education; laboratory service sharing; software as a service; universities; virtual environment; Availability; Collaboration; Educational institutions; Organizations; Remote laboratories; Security; 3.0.b Collaborative Learning Tools; 3.2.b. Computer science education; 5.3.h Web-based interaction; N.1.d Virtual Labs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Online Laboratory Consortium Remote Laboratories Workshop (GOLC), 2011 First

Conference_Location

Rapid City, SD

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1944-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GOLC.2011.6086782

Filename

6086782