Paper Info
Title
Providing Collaborative Support to Virtual and Remote Laboratories
Abstract
Virtual and remote laboratories (VRLs) are e-learning resources that enhance the accessibility of experimental setups providing a distance teaching framework which meets the student's hands-on learning needs. In addition, online collaborative communication represents a practical and a constructivist method to transmit the knowledge and experience from the teacher to students, overcoming physical distance and isolation. This paper describes the extension of two open source tools: 1) the learning management system Moodle, and 2) the tool to create VRLs Easy Java Simulations (EJS). Our extension provides: 1) synchronous collaborative support to any VRL developed with EJS (i.e., any existing VRL written in EJS can be automatically converted into a collaborative lab with no cost), and 2) support to deploy synchronous collaborative VRLs into Moodle. Using our approach students and/or teachers can invite other users enrolled in a Moodle course to a real-time collaborative experimental session, sharing and/or supervising experiences at the same time they practice and explore experiments using VRLs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/TLT.2013.20
TLT
Keywords
Field
DocType
educational technology
Educational technology,Constructivism (philosophy of education),Distance teaching,Computer aided instruction,Learning Management,Computer science,Virtual instrumentation,Distance education,Knowledge management,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia,Java
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
6
4
1939-1382
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.65
28
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luis de la Torre110411.63
Ruben Heradio215517.64
Carlos A. Jara31207.50
Jose Sanchez410417.13
Sebastian Dormido5869.10
Fernando Torres619624.92
Francisco A. Candelas71207.83