Creation of Customized Remote Laboratories Using Deconstruction

Author

Tobarra, Llanos ; Ros, Salvador ; Hernandez, Roberto ; Marcos-Barreiro, Alejandro ; Robles-Gomez, Antonio ; Caminero, Agustin C. ; Pastor, Rafael ; Castro, Manuel

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. & Control Syst., Spanish Univ. for Distance Educ., Madrid, Spain

Volume

10

Issue

2

fYear

2015

fDate

May-15

Firstpage

69

Lastpage

76

Abstract

The employment of customized remote laboratories becomes very relevant for the teaching community in distance education, since lecturers have the necessity to use real equipment through the Internet, which is adapted to the students´ skills. In addition to this, the creation and publication of utilities as services (being infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, or software as a service) have been a hot topic in recent years. This paper describes how the adaptation of real scientific laboratories based on OpenSocial has been performed in order to create laboratories as a service, which allow lecturers to create versatile scenarios depending on the learning/teaching process. This is possible due to its deconstruction, which can be seen as a set of services located in a specific Web container.

Keywords

Internet; cloud computing; computer aided instruction; distance learning; laboratories; teaching; Internet; OpenSocial; customized remote laboratories; deconstruction; distance education; infrastructure as a service; laboratories as a service; platform as a service; scientific laboratories; software as a service; teaching community; Containers; Education; Remote laboratories; Renewable energy sources; Servers; Software as a service; Customized Remote Laboratories; Customized remote laboratories; E-learning; E-learning, Deconstruction; deconstruction;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Tecnologias del Aprendizaje, IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1932-8540

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/RITA.2015.2418011

Filename

7076576