Development of a Remote Laboratory Management System and Integration with Social Networks

Development of a Remote Laboratory Management System and Integration

with Social Networks

F. Lerro1, P. Orduña2, S. Marchisio1, J. García-Zubía3

1 Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura. Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina2 DeustoTech - Deusto Institute of Technology, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain

3 Faculty of Engineering, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain

ICBL CONFERENCE 2013 – Florianópolis, BrazilNovember 6 – November 8, 2013

Development of a Remote Laboratory Management System and Integration with Social Networks

• Description– The Scenario

Sharing laboratories and the use of social networks at the University

– Previous DevelopmentStep by step

– This ProjectThe characteristics of the implementation

– Conclusions

ICBL CONFERENCE 2013 – Florianópolis, BrazilNovember 6 – November 8, 2013F. Lerro, P. Orduña, S. Marchisio, J. García-Zubía

The ScenarioSharing laboratories and the use of social networks at the University

Previous DevelopmentStep by Step

This ProjectThe characteristics of the implementation

Conclusions


Our lab

Easy to use No need to install plug-in or

application (HTML based) Multiplatform Need to have users

previously registered Previous tests accessible at

any timeNo user’s categoryTeachers can’t check what the student have doneNo forum





Conclusions


E-ducativa LMS

Multi-platform (Windows, Linux, Solaris, Unix) Multi-Language (Spanish, English, Portuguese, Italian) Forums User’s categories





Conclusions


Facebook

Almost all students at UNR have an account Allows communication between students and teachers Use of Facebook groups Allows OAuth for authentication

No user’s category (all users have the same priority)No connection with our labNot prepared for education





Conclusions


Integration with WebLab-Deusto

FCEIA Remote Laboratory can access to WebLab-Deusto’s experiments

WebLab-Deusto users can access to FCEIA Remote Laboratory

Simple integration





Conclusions


Integration with WebLab-Deusto





Conclusions


How we conceive the educational process

The active participation and collaboration of students and teachers in the production of knowledge is becoming an important teaching strategy.

In the scientific technologic experimental training, the role of the practice laboratory is essential

Among the great variety of didactic resources, the remote laboratory is a tool “at the service of”, that can be integrated at any time to support learning activities.





Conclusions



• First remote Lab at FCEIA created by students2007

• Improvements made after students critics2008

• Full implementation of the lab and new experiments added2009

• Total acceptation by students2010

• New remote laboratories projects2011

• E-ducativa LMS integration and new laboratory added2012

• Federated to WebLab-Deusto2013




Conclusions



Building a RLMS

RLMS

Laboratories

Experiments




Conclusions



Requirements

Easy share of the Laboratory to educational institutions with no infrastructure rather than Internet access

Social networks authentication in addition to local authentication

Users with different permissions (administrators, teachers, students, tutors)

Possibility of adding new laboratories easily in spite of lab’s architecture

LMS integration WebLab-Deusto federation




Conclusions



Proposed user’s administration layout

FCEIA Remote Laboratory

Administrator

Institution A Administrator

Classroom A Teacher

Students

Classroom B Teacher

Students

Institution B Administrator

Classroom A Teacher

Students

Institution n Administrator

Classroom n Teacher

Students




Conclusions



Characteristics of the implementation

Easy share of the lab to other institutions means centralized system

Teachers can check the evolution of the learning curve of their students on labs that allows it

The system only handles authorization and authentication (microRLMS)

As microRLMS makes it more flexible on the addition of new laboratories with different architectures

A software library was made to facilitate the integration with existing laboratories all over the world

The existing labs at FCEIA are now independent software to the MicroRLMS




Conclusions






Conclusions



Social Networks integration

Remote Laboratory as Facebook application Facebook or Twitter user to authenticate




Conclusions



Pros

Simple authentication and authorization with Social Networks

Deployed in cloud basis (centralized) Easy sharing New laboratories available to all institutions Low learning curve (very easy to use) Can also be installed on multiple servers Compatible with traditional RLMS

ConsSingle point of failureNo possibility of using local directory servers




Conclusions



Final Comments

This system provides institutions with no infrastructure the possibility of accessing remote laboratories all over the world

It can be adapted to different type of systems The schedule or queue is managed by the final lab, but no

by the microRLMS It can be created different categories of users and groups



Keywords

SharingSimplerMultiplatformScalableConnected

Development of a Remote Laboratory Management System and Integration

with Social Networks

F. Lerro1, P. Orduña2, S. Marchisio1, J. García-Zubía3

1 Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura. Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina2 DeustoTech - Deusto Institute of Technology, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain

3 Faculty of Engineering, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain

ICBL CONFERENCE 2013 – Florianópolis, BrazilNovember 6 – November 8, 2013

Development of a Remote Laboratory Management System and Integration with Social Networks

Education

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