Remote experimentation at University of Deusto, Spain
WebLab-Deusto
I am...
Pablo Orduña
Full time researcher and Project Manager at DeustoTech (University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain)
Background on Computer Sciences
I am NOT...
a lecturer (so I don't use this in class)
somebody who knows about electronics
somebody who knows about physics
somebody who knows about pedagogy
somebody who knows about outer space
somebody who knows about many more things
somebody who knows about the background of most of the labs I'm going to present
Raise your hands!
Who is from Faculty of Technical Sciences Čačak?
Who is a lecturer / professor?
Who is a lecturer / professor of STEM?
Who has already used remote laboratories in class?
Who is involved in NeReLa?
Who is involved in research in STEM education?
Who have not raised their hands?
Table of contents
University of Deusto
Introduction
Background
WebLab-Deusto
Collaborations
Table of contents
University of Deusto
Introduction
Background
WebLab-Deusto
Collaborations
Bilbao (according to Google Maps)
Bilbao (according to some people in Bilbao)
Bilbao (according to the rest of Bilbao)
Bilbao
Bilbao - Athletic de Bilbao
University of Deusto
University of Deusto
DeustoTech
Table of contents
University of Deusto
Introduction
Background
WebLab-Deusto
Collaborations
Education is changing
Digitalization
Demonetization & Dematerialization
What about education?
Dematerializing resources
Demonetizating resources
Abundance of learning resources
Raise your hands!
Who thinks that s/he could learn to ride a bike with videos and simulators?
Raise your hands!
Who would throw away all the laboratories where a simulator is available?
I'm a believer in online technology in education.
I think we have learned enough about this to understand that it will be transformative. It's going to change the world, and it's going to change the way we think about education. [...] This can all ad up to big changes in how we think about a university education. Could you imagine a situation where students do some of their degree work remotely and then do some on campus, particularly the small, experiential classes that don't transfer well to online?
John L. Hennessy, President of Stanford. May 2012 at IEEE Spectrum
Shor, Bohus, Atkan. Oregon State University, 1993.
VISIR equipment
(Murray et al., 2008)
(Zackrisson et al., 2008)
(Cedazo et al., 2006)
(del Alamo et al., 2002)
(Hardison et al., 2008)
(Salzmann et al., 1998)
(Coble et al., 2010)
Digitalizing laboratories is possible!
Digitalizing laboratories is possible and useful!
How to facilitate this digitalization?
Remote Labs & scheduling
Remote Labs & technologies
What do remote laboratories have in common?
Common features
Authentication (who enters)
Authorization (to what has access)
Scheduling (when can access)
Load balancing (distributing users among copies)
User tracking (what did he do; analytics)
Sharing (who else can access)
Administrative tools
MIT iLabs
If you can't come to the lab... the lab will come to you!
Jesús del Álamo, MIT
Labshare Sahara
WebLab-Deusto
GOLC: Global Online Laboratory Consortium
General concepts
Making the development much easier is possible!
Once we facilitate it, how do we share it with other universities?
Sharing remote laboratories
Sharing remote laboratories
Interest increasing
European
Union Commission is investing 60 million euro in research
actions, projects and network of excellences in Technology-
Enhanced Learning (TEL), under the call ICT-2011.8.1.
Table of contents
University of Deusto
Introduction
Background
WebLab-Deusto
Collaborations
Layers
Architecture
voodoo: internal middleware
Raspberry Pi
APIs for development
Managed
Client: JavaScript, Java applets, Adobe Flash, Google Web Toolkit