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

Pablo Orduña ^[1] ; Danilo Garbi Zutin ^[4] ; Sten Govaerts ^[2] ; Irene Lequerica Zorrozua ^[5] ; Philip H. Bailey ^[3] ; Elio Sancristobal ^[5] ; Christophe Salzmann ^[2] ; Kimberly DeLong ^[3] ; Denis Gillet ^[2] ; Manuel Alonso Castro Gil ^[5] ; Javier García Zubia ^[1]
1. [1] Universidad de Deusto
  
  Universidad de Deusto
  
  Bilbao, España
2. [2] Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
  
  Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
  
  Zürich, Suiza
3. [3] Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  
  City of Cambridge, Estados Unidos
4. [4] Carinthian University of Applied Sciences, Villach, Austria
5. [5] Spanish University for Distance Education, Madrid, Spain
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Localización: Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologías del Aprendizaje: IEEE-RITA, ISSN 1932-8540, Vol. 10, Nº. 4, 2015, págs. 223-233
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- 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.