2017
Orduna, Pablo; Rodríguez-Gil, L.; Garcia-Zubia, Javier; Hernández, U.; Azkuenaga, E.; Angulo, Ignacio
Increasing the value of Remote Laboratory federations through an open sharing platform: LabsLand Conference
Online Engineering & Internet of Things, Columbia University, New York, USA, 2017, ISBN: 3319643525, 9783319643526.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: open platforms, Remote laboratories
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title = {Increasing the value of Remote Laboratory federations through an open sharing platform: LabsLand},
author = {Pablo Orduna and L. Rodríguez-Gil and Javier Garcia-Zubia and U. Hernández and E. Azkuenaga and Ignacio Angulo},
editor = {Michael E. Auer, Danilo G. Zutin},
url = {https://morelab.deusto.es/media/publications/2017/conferencepaper/increasing-the-value-of-remote-laboratory-federations-through-an-open-sharing-platform-labsland.pdf},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-64352-6_80 },
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year = {2017},
date = {2017-09-14},
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abstract = {A remote laboratory is a software and hardware tool that enables
students to access real equipment located somewhere else through
the Internet. This equipment is usually located in universities, schools or research centers. During the last couple of decades, different initiatives have emerged dealing with the development and management of remote laboratories, their integration in learning management systems or their sharing. This last point is particularly relevant, since remote labs are a clear example of excess capacity: since they are usually used only some hours a day, some weeks a year, they could be shared among institutions to reduce costs or to increase the offer of experiential learning. However, despite this fact, the overall impact of these laboratories is fairly limited beyond the scope of the host institution or the scope (and duration) of projects in which the host institution is involved. The focus of this contribution is to outline a set of potential reasons for this fact, and solutions that are being developed to tackle them. After over 10 years working on the area, the WebLab-Deusto research group has started a spin-off focused on this topic, called LabsLand. A key factor of this spin-off is to provide a platform similar to other sharing economy marketplaces, aiming to provide features commonly ignored in the remote laboratories literature such as trust, accurate reliability or different pricing schemes for different scenarios; as well as the laboratories that are being initially provided.
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A remote laboratory is a software and hardware tool that enables
students to access real equipment located somewhere else through
the Internet. This equipment is usually located in universities, schools or research centers. During the last couple of decades, different initiatives have emerged dealing with the development and management of remote laboratories, their integration in learning management systems or their sharing. This last point is particularly relevant, since remote labs are a clear example of excess capacity: since they are usually used only some hours a day, some weeks a year, they could be shared among institutions to reduce costs or to increase the offer of experiential learning. However, despite this fact, the overall impact of these laboratories is fairly limited beyond the scope of the host institution or the scope (and duration) of projects in which the host institution is involved. The focus of this contribution is to outline a set of potential reasons for this fact, and solutions that are being developed to tackle them. After over 10 years working on the area, the WebLab-Deusto research group has started a spin-off focused on this topic, called LabsLand. A key factor of this spin-off is to provide a platform similar to other sharing economy marketplaces, aiming to provide features commonly ignored in the remote laboratories literature such as trust, accurate reliability or different pricing schemes for different scenarios; as well as the laboratories that are being initially provided.
students to access real equipment located somewhere else through
the Internet. This equipment is usually located in universities, schools or research centers. During the last couple of decades, different initiatives have emerged dealing with the development and management of remote laboratories, their integration in learning management systems or their sharing. This last point is particularly relevant, since remote labs are a clear example of excess capacity: since they are usually used only some hours a day, some weeks a year, they could be shared among institutions to reduce costs or to increase the offer of experiential learning. However, despite this fact, the overall impact of these laboratories is fairly limited beyond the scope of the host institution or the scope (and duration) of projects in which the host institution is involved. The focus of this contribution is to outline a set of potential reasons for this fact, and solutions that are being developed to tackle them. After over 10 years working on the area, the WebLab-Deusto research group has started a spin-off focused on this topic, called LabsLand. A key factor of this spin-off is to provide a platform similar to other sharing economy marketplaces, aiming to provide features commonly ignored in the remote laboratories literature such as trust, accurate reliability or different pricing schemes for different scenarios; as well as the laboratories that are being initially provided.
2016
Luis ; García-Zubia Rodriguez-Gil, Javier ; Orduña
Towards New Multiplatform Hybrid Online Laboratory Models Journal Article
In: IEEE, vol. 10, iss. 3, no. 17205460, pp. 318 - 330, 2016, ISSN: 1939-1382.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Laboratory Models, open platforms
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title = {Towards New Multiplatform Hybrid Online Laboratory Models},
author = {Rodriguez-Gil,Luis ; García-Zubia, Javier ; Orduña, Pablo ; López-de-Ipiña, Diego },
url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7515014 },
doi = {10.1109/TLT.2016.2591953},
issn = {1939-1382},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-07-18},
urldate = {2016-07-18},
journal = {IEEE},
volume = {10},
number = {17205460},
issue = {3},
pages = {318 - 330},
abstract = {Online laboratories have traditionally been split between virtual labs, with simulated components; and remote labs, with real components. The former tend to provide less realism but to be easily scalable and less expensive to maintain, while the latter are fully real but tend to require a higher maintenance effort and be more error-prone. This technical paper describes an architecture for hybrid labs merging the two approaches, in which virtual and real components interact with each other. The goal is to leverage the advantages of each type of lab. The architecture is fully web-based and multiplatform, which is in line with the industry and the remote laboratory community trends. Only recently has this become technically feasible for graphic-intensive laboratories due to previous limitations in browser-based graphical technologies. This architecture relies on the recent HTML5 and WebGL standards to overcome these limitations, and makes use of the Unity technology. To ensure that the proposed architecture is suitable, we set requirements based on the literature, we compare it with other approaches, and we examine its scope, strengths, and weaknesses. Additionally, we illustrate it with a concrete hybrid lab and we evaluate its benefits and potential through educational experiments.},
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Online laboratories have traditionally been split between virtual labs, with simulated components; and remote labs, with real components. The former tend to provide less realism but to be easily scalable and less expensive to maintain, while the latter are fully real but tend to require a higher maintenance effort and be more error-prone. This technical paper describes an architecture for hybrid labs merging the two approaches, in which virtual and real components interact with each other. The goal is to leverage the advantages of each type of lab. The architecture is fully web-based and multiplatform, which is in line with the industry and the remote laboratory community trends. Only recently has this become technically feasible for graphic-intensive laboratories due to previous limitations in browser-based graphical technologies. This architecture relies on the recent HTML5 and WebGL standards to overcome these limitations, and makes use of the Unity technology. To ensure that the proposed architecture is suitable, we set requirements based on the literature, we compare it with other approaches, and we examine its scope, strengths, and weaknesses. Additionally, we illustrate it with a concrete hybrid lab and we evaluate its benefits and potential through educational experiments.