STEM oriented remote access laboratories with distributed peer-to-peer architecture
Edited book (chapter)
Chapter Title | STEM oriented remote access laboratories with distributed peer-to-peer architecture |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
ERA Publisher ID | 0 |
Book Title | Online experimentation: emerging technologies and IoT |
Authors | Maiti, Ananda (Author), Kist, Alexander A. (Author), Maxwell, Andrew D. (Author) and Orwin, Lindy (Author) |
Editors | Restivo, Maria Teresa, Cardoso, Alberto and Lopes, António Mendes |
Page Range | 295-314 |
Chapter Number | 16 |
Number of Pages | 20 |
Year | 2015 |
Publisher | International Frequency Sensor Association Publishing |
HV McKay Charitable Trust | |
Place of Publication | Spain |
ISBN | 9788460861287 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.sensorsportal.com/HTML/BOOKSTORE/Online_Experimentation.htm |
Abstract | Remote Access Laboratories (RAL) are used to teach provide experimental setups about science and technology remotely. It is widely used by universities to overcome time, space and availability constraints. Such facilities allow students to access equipment through the internet in a client server mode. To make such systems usable for school education both a change of pedagogy and the underlying system is required towards an open ended distributed architecture with users having equal creative roles. Traditionally RAL is viewed as a service provided and consumed by universities and students respectively. For STEM education, the RAL technologies may be used as a tool that connects users from different areas to come together, collaborate and share ideas and experiences. This chapter focuses on the benefits and challenges of a distributed RAL as well as technical means to implement it. This allows teachers and students to create and maintain their own experimental rigs using hardware and software that may be acquired commonly such as micro-controllers units (MCU). The distributed RAL system aims to bring both the experiment building and running experience close to the users. The entire system is to be run by the users or 'maker' community. Once the makers has created and tested the equipment successfully, the experiments are online for others to access and the instruments at the experiments side must be operated from the internet by the users. |
Keywords | remote laboratories; STEM education; e-learning; RALfie; enquiry based learning |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390399. Education systems not elsewhere classified |
Byline Affiliations | School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering |
Australian Digital Futures Institute | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q35yv/stem-oriented-remote-access-laboratories-with-distributed-peer-to-peer-architecture
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