Transitive and Scalable Federation Model for Remote Laboratories

WebLab-Deusto

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Education is changing

 





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

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/john-l-hennessy-risk-taker

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Challenges

 

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)

(Callaghan et al., 2012)

Digitalizing laboratories is possible!

Digitalizing laboratories is possible and useful!

(But that's outside the scope of this research)

Challenges

Remote Labs & scheduling


(page 35 of the dissertation)

Remote Labs & technologies


(Gravier et al., 2008)

What do remote laboratories have in common?

 

What is a Remote Laboratory Management System?

 

Common features

 

Remote Laboratory Management Systems

MIT iLabs

If you can't come to the lab... the lab will come to you!

Jesús del Álamo, MIT

Labshare Sahara

WebLab-Deusto

General concepts

Making the development much easier is possible!

Challenges

 

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.



 

But this is not new...

 

iLab Shared Architecture



(Harward et al., 2008b)
 

Labshare Sahara


(Diponio et al., 2012)
 

Comparison

Challenges

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Architecture

voodoo: internal middleware


 

Raspberry Pi


APIs for development

Managed model

Scheduling based on resources

 

Comparison

Authentication

Mobile support

Robot lab running on Kindle

Administration


Experiment tracking

Simulator developed to take measurements

Laboratories developed in Deusto


Third party labs


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Layers

 

Comparison

 

Formalization

 

Comparison

Transitive federation

 

Comparison

Federated Load Balance

Use case

(Ignacio Angulo's Plug&Play WebLab-Box)

Accounting analyzed

 

Evaluation

 

Evaluation

 

Comparison

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What else is all this useful for?

Applications

Federation

LMS integration

Transitivity

Applications

Interoperability

Interoperability with UNR and iLabs

Interoperability: outcomes

Complex chains

Applications

Applications

 

Sharing remote laboratories

wCloud: RLMS as a Service

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Layers

Challenges

Scientific contributions

Technical contributions
WebLab-Deusto RLMS

Technical contributions:
Additional tools

Dissemination & impact

But, more importantly...

...this is a real thing!


At Deusto

PILAR: Plataforma Ibérica de Laboratorios Remotos



Future work

Transitive and Scalable Federation Model for Remote Laboratories

WebLab-Deusto

(Is there a way to manage the risk?)