2014
Orduña, Pablo; Bailey, Philip; de Long, Kirky; Lopez-de-Ipiña, Diego; Garcia-Zubia, Javier
Towards federated interoperable bridges for sharing educational remote laboratories Journal Article
In: Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 30, pp. 389-395, 2014.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: federation, Interoperability, Remote laboratories
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title = {Towards federated interoperable bridges for sharing educational remote laboratories},
author = {Pablo Orduña and Philip Bailey and Kirky de Long and Diego Lopez-de-Ipiña and Javier Garcia-Zubia},
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abstract = {Educational remote laboratories are software and hardware tools that allow students to remotely access real equipment located in the university as if they were in a hands-on-lab session. Different initiatives have existed during the last two decades, and indeed toolkits (e.g. iLabs, WebLab-Deusto or Labshare Sahara) have been developed to ease their development by providing common management features (e.g. authentication or scheduling). Each of these systems was developed aiming particular constraints, so it could be difficult to migrate the labs built on top of one system to other. While there is certainly some overlap among these systems, with bridges among them they become complimentary. Given that these systems support web services based federation protocols for sharing labs, it is possible to achieve this goal, and share labs among different universities through different systems. The impact of this goal is that different institutions can increase the experiential activities of their students, potentially improving their learning goals. The focus is the integration of WebLab-Deusto labs inside the iLab Shared Architecture, as well as the integration of iLab batch labs inside WebLab-Deusto, detailing limitations and advantages of both integrations and showing particular cases.
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Educational remote laboratories are software and hardware tools that allow students to remotely access real equipment located in the university as if they were in a hands-on-lab session. Different initiatives have existed during the last two decades, and indeed toolkits (e.g. iLabs, WebLab-Deusto or Labshare Sahara) have been developed to ease their development by providing common management features (e.g. authentication or scheduling). Each of these systems was developed aiming particular constraints, so it could be difficult to migrate the labs built on top of one system to other. While there is certainly some overlap among these systems, with bridges among them they become complimentary. Given that these systems support web services based federation protocols for sharing labs, it is possible to achieve this goal, and share labs among different universities through different systems. The impact of this goal is that different institutions can increase the experiential activities of their students, potentially improving their learning goals. The focus is the integration of WebLab-Deusto labs inside the iLab Shared Architecture, as well as the integration of iLab batch labs inside WebLab-Deusto, detailing limitations and advantages of both integrations and showing particular cases.
2013
Orduña, Pablo; Lerro, F.; Bailey, Philip; Marchisio, S.; Dziabenko, Olga; Angulo, Ignacio; Lopez-de-Ipiña, Diego; Garcia-Zubia, Javier
Exploring complex remote laboratory ecosystems through interoperable federation chains Conference
Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), IEEE, 2013, ISBN: 978-1-4673-6110-1.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: federation, Interoperability, Remote laboratories
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title = {Exploring complex remote laboratory ecosystems through interoperable federation chains},
author = {Pablo Orduña and F. Lerro and Philip Bailey and S. Marchisio and Olga Dziabenko and Ignacio Angulo and Diego Lopez-de-Ipiña and Javier Garcia-Zubia},
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year = {2013},
date = {2013-03-15},
booktitle = {Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)},
publisher = {IEEE},
abstract = {An educational remote laboratory is a software and hardware tool that allows students to remotely access real equipment located in universities or educational centers. Federations of remote laboratories have existed for years: students of one university transparently access laboratories of other university through software systems that enable these contracts. However, traditionally these contracts have been defined in a “one to one” basis and both universities using the same remote laboratory management system. The focus of this contribution is to present different interoperable bridges among different remote laboratory systems and explore how they can be chained to build complex ecosystems of remote laboratories. The impact of this chaining is that, if successful, it would definitely contribute to the adoption of remote laboratories.
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An educational remote laboratory is a software and hardware tool that allows students to remotely access real equipment located in universities or educational centers. Federations of remote laboratories have existed for years: students of one university transparently access laboratories of other university through software systems that enable these contracts. However, traditionally these contracts have been defined in a “one to one” basis and both universities using the same remote laboratory management system. The focus of this contribution is to present different interoperable bridges among different remote laboratory systems and explore how they can be chained to build complex ecosystems of remote laboratories. The impact of this chaining is that, if successful, it would definitely contribute to the adoption of remote laboratories.