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Remote laboratories for teaching and learning
Enriching Student Learning Experience through International Collaboration in Remote Laboratories Meeting at Adelaide :: January of 2009 :: This presentation is available at http://www.slideshare.net/josemmf
J. M. Martins Ferreira [ [email protected] ]FEUP / DEECRua Dr. Roberto Frias4200-465 Porto – PORTUGAL
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Outline of this talk
• Scope and characterization
• Examples– On-campus– Outside– The Labs-on-the-web project
• Pedagogical issues
• Conclusion
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What they are and what they are not• Remote labs may be seen as an extension
of e-learning (but they use a wider technology spectrum)
• They are a complement – not a replacement – to real labs
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Remote, virtual and mixed-reality labs• A remote lab enables access to real
devices through a communication network
• A virtual lab deals with simulation models
• In a mixed-reality lab real devices interact with simulation models
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Benefits…(pedagogical and other wise)• Adapt easily to each individual’s pace of
learning
• Safety and security
• Cost / benefit
• Institutional image and interaction with the outside world
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Technical implementation issues
• Timing Very short or very long experiments need an off-line mode, but most experiments enable on-line modes
• Observation-only experiments do not require access management tools, but observation-and-control experiments call for reservation and coordinated sharing
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Technical obstacles
• The wide variety of technologies used in their implementation is a problem (each case is a different case too often…)
• Network security policies and bandwidth represent additional obstacles
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Institutional implications
• Teacher training (technical and pedagogical)
• Technicians for setup and maintenance
• Support services (computers and pedagogical contents)
• Access policies
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The examples herein presented…
• Do not cover all types of remote labs existing at FEUP (which includes several departments)
• Were selected to illustrate two main types:– On-campus labs– Outside labs
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On-campus: an on-line workbench for electronics• Electronics is an area where on-line
workbenches may or may not be a good choice
• In this example the students develop a microcontroller-based electronic die– Their main task is to write the (assembly)
program for the microcontroller– A webcam located in the remote workbench
shows the operation of the electronic die
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How the remote workbench looks like• The NI ELVIS station replaces the
instruments found in a “standard” workbench
NI ELVIS station
Electronic die
Microcontroller board (8051)
Webcam
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Off-line work
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In the case of observation and control, booking is required
Access to the workbench () becomes possible when the current time equals the reserved slot
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On-line work
Control buttons, live workbench image, videoconferencing
Code transfer and status information
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Electronic die (video)
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The remote lab may also be outside the campus…
University campus
E-learning server
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E-learning server
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Outside campus: Access to an SDRAM test station at Qimonda• The Advantest T5365 is used in the
Electronic Systems Testing curricular unit (three editions in 2007/08 and 2008/09)– Dedicated ADSL
access– Isolated from the
internal QPT LAN– Advantest offered
all software licenses
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Remote SDRAM testing
• Access management– MRBS on Moodle (to display the reservations)– The killtest command (for solving conflicts)
• Off-line: Test programdevelopment
• On-line: – Compilation (multiuser)– Execution (single user)
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Reservation via MRBS in Moodle
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Off-line work
• Test program development (ATL code file created with any text editor)
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On-line work
• ATL code uploading, compilation and test execution
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Further examples:The Labs-on-the-web project• Web access to lab workbenches in
engineering courses– Implementation and pedagogical contents– Evaluation of pedagogical effectiveness– Teacher training
• A FEUP-FPCEUP partnership with a duration of 20 months (Nov’06 - Jun’08)
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Labs-on-the-web: Teacher training• Training actions – TA1: Pedagogical
principles; TA2: E-learning via Moodle; TA3: On-line workbenches
• 4 months in total, 5 on-site sessions for each training action (alternating TA1 and TA2), homework recommendations
• Teachers were allowed to build their own personal training plan
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Labs-on-the-web: On-site training actions
TA1: Discussion
TA3: Discussion & hands-on
TA2: Hands-on
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Labs-on-the-web:Training results• 103 teachers
from 15 institutions
• 152 evaluation questionnaires received
• Evaluation results show approval and positive impact on teaching practices
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Labs-on-the-web:Pedagogical evaluation• Evaluation dimensions: interaction with
the teacher, peer cooperation, learning process, knowledge and skills
• Various curricular units and a number of respondents that ranged from 153 to 169
• Evaluation questionnaires were proposed before and after the remote experiments, using a grading scale of 1 to 7
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Labs-on-the-web:Pedagogical evaluation (2)
Interaction with the teacher
4,9 4,92 4,94 4,96 4,98 5 5,02 5,04
before
after
Peer cooperation
4,6 4,62 4,64 4,66 4,68 4,7 4,72 4,74
before
after
Learning process
4,6 4,65 4,7 4,75 4,8 4,85 4,9 4,95
before
after
Knowledge and skills
4,73 4,74 4,75 4,76 4,77 4,78 4,79 4,8 4,81 4,82
before
after
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Labs-on-the-web: DVD contents• Management
• Dissemination
• Training
• Evaluation
• Technology
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Pedagogical issues:Remote x virtual• Do on-line workbenches (remote labs)
have an added-value in relation to simulation (virtual labs)?
[Quino]
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Pedagogical issues:Acquisition of skills
[Quino]
• Are simulation / remote experimentation ableto meet all our training needs? (acquisition of haptic skills, professionalrecognition, etc.)
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Pedagogical issues:Technical restrictions• Technical restrictions
may hamper the pedagogical benefits…(by degrading theexperiments, theinteraction among, the students, etc.)
[Quino]
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Pedagogical issues:Interaction with the teacher• May the students find themselves
abandoned to technology?
[Quino]
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Pedagogical issues:A glimpse of the future?• Do we want to replicate the real lab
experience?
• Will the ubiquitous teacher become real?
• Are there any ethical issues?
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Complementary activities at FEUP
• The benchmarking exercise on e-learning (ESMU / University of South Denmark)
• Quality assurance on teaching and learning at FEUP (in cooperation with the Psychology and Educational Sciences faculty)
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Conclusion
• The availability of remote labs may indeed contribute to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning
• Bad use is possible, but relatively easy to avoid (just as with e-learning in general…)
• There’s plenty of opportunities to innovate, both in technical and pedagogical terms
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Enriching Student Learning Experience through International Collaboration in Remote Laboratories Meeting at Adelaide :: January of 2009 :: This presentation is available at http://www.slideshare.net/josemmf
Thanks for your attention!
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