Abstract
E-learning offers to the student’s didactic tools and course materials over Internet. By distributing tools and materials in this fashion, students isolated from the University environment can still obtain University degrees in many fields. Courses that include laboratory sessions have traditionally required students to be on-site. This is primarily due to the need for laboratory resources to be located in a single site for both practical and safety reasons. This fact hampered the freedom of non traditional (off campus) students to achieve their educational goals. The web adaptations of software packages such as LabVIEW allow control of experiments over Internet. Remote laboratories then become possible. In this framework the Remote Laboratory Distributed on Geographical Network LA.DI.RE. “G.Savastano” of University of Sannio [1] was born, with the aim of developing a virtual learning environment to deliver, through the distance learning methodologies, theoretical lessons as well as laboratory activity on real measurement instrumentation. The paper highlights the interdisciplinary aspect of LA.DI.RE. “G. Savastano”, showing the possibility to provide different real experiments independent of software development environment, thanks to use of an open Learning Management System (LMS) and concerning different didactic fields. In this case the authors present a physics experiment representing a practical session within a Physics course realized in collaboration by researchers of the University of Sannio, in Italy, and University of Thessaloniki in Greece.
Highlights
The advent of Internet provided challenging new possibilities for teaching and learning
The terms e-learning, web-based learning or hypermedia-aided learning are interchangeable for online education
E-learning systems use various tools and technologies to establish its existence over World Wide Web
Summary
The advent of Internet provided challenging new possibilities for teaching and learning. In this paper the authors highlight the interdisciplinary aspect of the system that provides different theoretical and practical didactic materials about Electronics, Electric and Electronic Measurements, Automotive, Control Engineering, Biomedicine, Physics and so on This innovative aspect makes this system unique and it has been possible thanking to the collaboration with several of Italian and International Universities. “G.Savastano” system has promoted new collaborations between the University of Sannio and a lot of Universities of different countries as Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Romania, Slovak Republic, Uruguay At this moment on the system courses in English, realized and introduced by researchers of these foreign Universities, are available and a lot of experiments of different scientific sectors, as measurement, biomedical, electronic, physical and automotive, are accessible. The system provides some specific community services as virtual classroom and chat and especially the realtime visualization of instrumentation front panels thanks to IP cameras allowing the students to observe the instrument changes caused by their actions on the user interface [13]
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