Abstract
Remote laboratories have been developed to support the studentsâ?? learning and to reduce equipment costs. More and more, laboratories play an important role in engineering teaching, since they allow the connection between theory and practice. Actually, there is the necessity to change strategies and methodologies of education. The remote laboratories enable the access to all students anytime, anywhere because they are available on the Internet. This paper presents the firsts developments of an innovative laboratory in the bioengineering area: RePhyS. RePhyS will be a remote laboratory for use in biomedical and physiological systems studies in graduate and postgraduate levels. The user will be allowed to interact with the system parameters, and to control some system variables. This new lab will enable to produce, visualize and analyze, in real-time, results of practical experiences in order to improve studentsâ?? activity of learning, and it will provide with an enriched computing environment for sharing results and collaborations.
Highlights
The laboratorial experiments play an important role in the sciences and engineering teaching [1]
A remote laboratory is composed by a group of experimental platforms that allow the interactive access of its resources at distance [4]
The biomedical engineering education offers a range of challenges to all the component parts of the educational process: faculty, students, employers and graduates [11]
Summary
The laboratorial experiments play an important role in the sciences and engineering teaching [1]. The students should acquire knowledge and develop their own capacities, requiring the recurrent, or even intensive, use of laboratories where they can combine theory with practice [1, 2]. The use of laboratories demands time, space and large financial investments to obtain the equipment, which is not always within reach of education institutions [2, 3]. The necessity of laboratorial practice leads to creation or development of virtual and remote laboratories [2], providing the distance teaching by the use of organized educational resources [4]. The main goal of this kind of laboratories is to offer an interactive platform between the real world and the experimentation, the problems resolution, the achievement and the scientific interpretation of data [1,2,3,4,5,6]
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