remote labs
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Past experience and current trends in developing and deploying remote labs in engineering educationTRANSCRIPT
Remote Labs 2.0: Social Media & Smart Devices
A Decade of Remote Experimentation & Evaluation
Denis Gillet and Christophe SalzmannSwiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland
LiLa Conference • April 11, 2011 • 12:10 - 12:30 • Cambridge • UK
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u Blended & active learning LMS-free framework
u Unique infrastructure supporting local & remote laboratory activities 24/7 since 2001 (24 setups)
u Flexible access to collaborative Web-based experimentation environments (e-Learning)
Remote Labs at EPFL
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u High-level competences: Project management, autonomy, teamwork, engineering methodology
Remote Labs at EPFL
Collaborativeanalysis, design,implementationand validation
System modeling,data acquisition, identification andreal-time control
Teleoperation as a e-learningparadigm and a subject matter
to be studied and applied
Computer-based control
Replaces
the analog signal generator, the analog controller and the oscilloscope
with a
computer and a DAQ board
LabVIEW and associated DAQ drivers drastically speed up the controller development
Remote Labs at EPFL - 1992
LAN access
Webcam
Ex-cathedra demonstration
Video feed
Add a webcam + streaming software
Add a communication layer + deported GUI
Remote Labs at EPFL - 1996
Internet access
Many clientsOnline reservation and allocation
systemSynchronized information streams
(data + video)
Remote Labs at EPFL - 1997
Web Deployment and collaboration
First batch of students to access the remote lab 24/7
Outside lab activities > 50 %
Collaborative learning supporton-click data transfer to eJournal
Integration into eMersion, a collaborative environment
Remote Labs at EPFL -2002
Additional online services
• Integration to other environmentscross deployment with UNED, EJS
• Integration of external toolsshared space, analysis tools, video chat
• User acceptance assessment!Improvements needed (complexity)
• Drastic student increase (30 to >100)
Remote Labs at EPFL - 2005
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Current Challenges
u Only a few experiments are openly available, especially at the end of the supporting projects
u Limited spreading due to
uhigh development overhead, especially for the GUI
uhigh exploitation costs and low scalability
u low academic incentive to share
udifficult to adapt in other institutions
udedicated sensing devices and actuators, legacy
u Incompatible with smart phones, eBooks, iPads, …
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u Invite both learners and remote labs in social media platforms to enable interaction for learning
u Exploit the underlying technologies of the Web of People (social media)and the Internetof Things (smartdevices) to easeRemote Labsdevelopment& deployment
u Each lab hasan email address
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Smart Devices ParadigmuOnline intelligent, autonomous and networked
devices, such as sensors and actuators
u integrating hardware and software, as wellas advanced and versatile communication capabilities
u supporting identification, initialization, controland diagnostic at distance
u interpreting incoming requests and adapting responses using low or high level protocols
u supporting pull or push, active or passive modes
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Smart Devices Paradigm
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Smart Device
VisualizationWidget
RSS Feed
SMS Alarm
emailbatch
retrieval
iPadaccess
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u Deconstruction ofthe virtual andremote labenvironments
u From Appletsto Widgets
u Ease customizationand repurposing
u Cross browser
u Cross social mediaplatforms
Social Media Platforms
Java Applet
Meta Widgetor mash-upin the Graaasp PLE
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Social Media Platforms
Graaasp contextual aggregatorwith recommendation of entities (people, spaces, assets and tools) dug in various online repositories
http://graaasp.epfl.ch
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u Turn you remote or virtual labs into Smart Devices
u Deconstruct your virtual or remote lab Apps into Widgets
u Agile development of plastic personal environments
u Simplification ➚ Standardization ➘
u Share and reuse
u Enjoy !
Social Media Platforms
uhttp://interaction.epfl.ch
uhttp://graaasp.epfl.ch
uhttp://www.stellarnet.eu
uhttp://www.role-project.eu
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Contact & Links