Abstract
In this paper we report on current and future developments in the remote laboratory NetLab. After a short review of real, virtual and remote laboratories, NetLab – a remote laboratory created and operated at the University of South Australia since 2002, is introduced. Experiments conducted in 2015 using real laboratory and NetLab are presented and student feedback on those reported. Increasingly, both academics and students accept that properly structured, documented and supported remote laboratories constitute a valid complementation to and/or replacement of real laboratories. To increase the students’ learning support in remote laboratories a development of an intelligent tutoring system based on the learning analytics is proposed and outlined in this paper.
Highlights
The development of digital technology found its numerous applications in modern education
NetLab is a Remote Laboratories (RL) developed at the University of South Australia and has been used in teaching a number of courses including Electrical Circuit Theory, Introduction to Electrical Engineering and Signals and Systems courses since 2002
Different values of components can be selected by turning the knobs on the front panel of the animated images of the component box using a computer mouse pointer. It looks to users like a mechanical action, in reality the value is changed by sending commands from an animated graphical user interface (GUI) of the component box to an electronic board where the commands are decoded into positioning of a set of relays for a corresponding value
Summary
The development of digital technology found its numerous applications in modern education. Over the past decades many universities have been developing remote laboratories to support delivery of practical component of their courses for both on-campus and off-campus students. Remote Laboratories (RL) offer a compromise: one set of equipment can support large number of students; scheduling of laboratory sessions is generally not required and the sessions are usually not supervised. These give RLs economic advantage over real laboratories ( known as proximal laboratories), the more important emerging issues are if RLs are able to deliver desired learning outcomes and how are they perceived by students. In this paper some new developments in NetLab that include applications of learning analytics and intelligent tutoring system are presented with the intention of improving student learning outcomes and student retention
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