Showing papers by "Pablo Orduna published in 2015"

An Extensible Architecture for the Integration of Remote and Virtual Laboratories in Public Learning Tools

Abstract: Remote laboratories are software and hardware tools that allow students to remotely access real equipment located in universities. The integration of remote laboratories in learning tools (learning management systems, content management systems, or personal learning environments) has been achieved to integrate remote laboratories as part of the learning curricula. A cross-institutional initiative called gateway4labs has been created to perform this integration extensible to multiple remote laboratories in multiple learning tools. This contribution focuses on describing this initiative and, in particular, how opening it to public systems (where users do not need to be registered) produces new technical and organizational challenges due to the public availability of labs. In addition, this contribution shows integrations of systems that were not previously addressed in this initiative, such as PhET or ViSH, as well as a new approach for integrating supported laboratories in external specifications such as the smart device one through OpenSocial.

Automatic Assessment of Progress Using Remote Laboratories

Abstract: In this paper we present an automatic assessment model for the development of competencies in a physics course using VISIR remote experiment, based on a rubric, and using learning analytics techniques to process data automatically collected from students’ activity using Weblab-Deusto platform.

wCloud: Automatic generation of WebLab-Deusto deployments in the Cloud

Abstract: Educational remote laboratories are software and hardware tools that allow students to remotely access real equipment located in universities as if they were in a hands-on-lab session. Since most remote labs share certain management tasks (authentication, Learning Analytics, scheduling, etc.), software systems implementing them on top of which remote labs could be implemented were developed and called Remote Lab Management Systems (RLMS). A key feature provided by certain RLMSs is sharing a remote laboratory between two systems deployed in two institutions. This way, it becomes possible to have multiple RLMS instances (which are pure software) in a Cloud environment, customized for different schools or universities. Each school would have its own RLMS, with all the management features (e.g., managing its own students), and in the end, the RLMS would connect to the RLMS which has the physical equipment. The focus of this contribution is to detail how this “RLMS as a Service” is being implemented in the case of WebLab-Deusto as part of the mCloud project, from a technical point of view.

Archimedes remote lab for secondary schools

Abstract: This paper presents a remote lab designed for teaching the Archimedes' principle to secondary school students, as well as an online virtual lab on the general domain of buoyancy. The Archimedes remote lab is integrated into WebLab-Deusto. Both labs are promoted for usage in frame of the Go-Lab European project.

Educational Data Mining in an Open-Ended Remote Laboratory on Electric Circuits. Goals and Preliminary Results.

Abstract: WebLab-Deusto is a learning environment used at the University of Deusto as the landing platform to several remote laboratories currently used in high school and university level courses. One of these remote labs is VISIR, a remote electricity kit that can be used in teaching DC and AC circuits. As happens in any openended educational environment, it is difficult to assess the learning effects of this tool. Fortunately the communication between the users and the VISIR remote lab in the WeblabDeusto leaves behind a set of log information that can be analyzed. This contribution presents our current work-in-progress in analyzing these logs for better understanding the learning processes that take place when using this remote lab.

The AppComposer Web application for school teachers: A platform for translating and adapting educational web applications

Abstract: Developing educational apps that cover a wide range of learning contexts and languages is a challenging task. In this paper, we introduce the AppComposer Web app to address this issue. The AppComposer aims at empowering teachers to easily translate and adapt existing apps that fit their educational contexts. Developers do not need to provide extensive translations and configurations of their apps and can simply follow certain guidelines to make their apps translatable and adaptable by the AppComposer. Since the AppComposer makes use of the standard internationalization specification used by OpenSocial, even external apps can be translated without contacting the original developer.

Archimedes remote lab

Abstract: The paper presents a remote lab for teaching the Archimedes' Principle. The Archimedes Lab is designed and implemented using sensors, electronic board, test tubes, high definition cameras, motors and objects. It is integrated into the WebLab-Deusto platform.