Abstract
Today's educational needs require tools with neither geographical nor temporal restrictions. These tools also have to help students to reach the knowledge and provide them with the skills that the labor market demands. To achieve this goal, the technical areas rely on the contribution that laboratory practices provide. However, traditional laboratory practices, carried out in person at the institution, are limited due to the requirements of both their exploitation and their provision. For this reason, educational institutions have opted for remote laboratories (RLs) as the educational tool to provide the benefits of experimentation in real environments, either as an accompaniment to face-to-face activity or as the only mean of experimentation in real environments. Although RLs provide exclusive benefits <<24/7 availability, integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ITCs), etc.>>, they also present limitations derived from the technology involved <<hardware and software>>; PILAR project << Platform Integration of Laboratories based on the Architecture of VISIR>> was conceived under this premise. PILAR proposes a federation of 5 Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality (VISIR) systems. VISIR is a RL for wiring and measuring electrical and electronics circuits in a simulated workbench. PILAR aims to create a grid of laboratories shared and accessed by all participants, expanding and empowering the existing systems to a new level of service and capacity.
Highlights
Current educational strategies adopted by institutions are strongly based on the existing needs of their students and potential students
PILAR Erasmus Plus project aims to interconnect Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality (VISIR) nodes into a common platform in order to make use of the individual services provided by each node and create federated laboratory services only possible through the framework established within the federation
PILAR project aims for the federation of five of the existing VISIR nodes, for sharing analog electronics experiments and empowering the capacity and the resources of each VISIR provider within the federation, as well as providing access to other educational institutions to a VISIR remote laboratories (RLs) through the PILAR consortium
Summary
Abstract—Today's educational needs require tools with neither geographical nor temporal restrictions These tools have to help students to reach the knowledge and provide them with the skills that the labor market demands. Traditional laboratory practices, carried out in person at the institution, are limited due to the requirements of both their exploitation and their provision. For this reason, educational institutions have opted for remote laboratories (RLs) as the educational tool to provide the benefits of experimentation in real environments, either as an accompaniment to face-to-face activities or as the only mean of experimentation in real environments. PILAR aims to create a grid of laboratories shared and accessed by all participants, expanding and empowering the existing systems to a new level of service and capacity
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