Abstract
A number of remote laboratories and virtual laboratories have been created which support the mobile devices factor. The focus of a number of researchers at present is on the platforms which supports these online laboratories. This paper presents the solution we developed. The platform we developed is a modification of the iLab Shared Architecture (ISA) which was originally created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was expanded to include SMS services and WebSocket services. The goal was to ensure that it is able to support all mobile phones and tablets. Feature phones can perform experiments via SMS and tablets can use HTML5 based applications while personal computers can use the original ISA services.
Highlights
Online laboratories have existed for several years and a number of platforms have been developed for online laboratories
Since 2012 the sale of the personal computer has been on the decline and in 2014, the sale of mobile phones exceeded the sale of personal computers for the first time since the personal computer debuted [1, 2]
This cost scales linearly with the number of times he performs the experiments. This online laboratory system would be advantageous for making online laboratories available to students who are not connected to the internet or who cannot afford to connect to the internet to perform the experiments
Summary
Online laboratories have existed for several years and a number of platforms have been developed for online laboratories When many of these were in development though, mobile phones were not the computing devices of choice. From the sensors in mobile devices, a number of other advantages have been identified for the use of mobile devices in education [6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12] All these taken into consideration, a number of online laboratories have been developed for mobile devices [13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20]. This paper is structured as follows: Section 2 discusses work with has been done by a number of researchers on supporting online experimentation on mobile devices.
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