VIRTUAL LABORATORY AS REALISTIC TOOL FOR THE E-LEARNING IN THE ELECTRIC AND ELECTRONIC MEASUREMENT AND INSTRUMENTATION

Domenico Grimaldi,Mariella Riccio,Sergio Rapuano,Francesco Zoino

doi:10.47839/ijc.6.2.437

Abstract

The paper deals with the research project adopting the e-learning methodologies for teaching in electrical and electronic measurement and instrumentation. The objective is to offer to the users the tool to achieve accurate and practical experience by working in real conditions and on real instruments. After the description of both the hardware and the software architecture of the Remote Didactic Laboratory, Laboratorio Didattico Remoto – LA.DI.RE. “G. Savastano”, the innovative solutions addressing the requirements of reality are examined and investigated. The core of the system is the Learning Management System (LMS) that provides didactic contents, enabling the account management, security protection, collaborative learning, student activity tracking, and feedback collection. LA.DI.RE. adds to the commercial LMS the innovative services dedicated to laboratory activities concerning the remote control of real instrumentation and the real-time visualization of instrument front panels during the execution of the experiment chosen by the user.

Highlights

INTRODUCTIONTalking about e-Learning means, most of all, talking about both of methodology and technology of the Internet-based distance learning paradigm
Talking about e-Learning means, most of all, talking about both of methodology and technology of the Internet-based distance learning paradigm.The term e-Learning is known since a lot of time in both fields of life long learning and in academic research as determined, at first, by the Sorbonne declaration of May 25, 1998, that emphasized the creation of the European area of higher education as a key way to promote citizens' mobility and employability and the Continent's overall development [1].The declaration of Bologna in June 19, 1999 aimed to create an European Higher Education Area by 2010, in which students could choose from a wide and transparent range of high quality courses and benefit from smooth recognition procedures
“G. Savastano” Virtual Laboratory (VL), from two points of view. First they will discuss the learning environment form the technical and didactical point of view highlighting most of the innovations introduced like the multi-channel evolution, On the other hand they will discuss the international diffusion of the VL and the services and facilities created for the enterprise

Summary

INTRODUCTION

Talking about e-Learning means, most of all, talking about both of methodology and technology of the Internet-based distance learning paradigm. The project resulted in the realization of an innovative distance learning environment including the typical features of commercial LMS and the capability of managing and remotely controlling electronic measurement instrumentation to give, to the students, the possibility of executing experimental activities on actual instrumentation in realistic conditions. This innovative system, called Remote Didactic Laboratory Distributed over a Wide Area Network First they will discuss the learning environment form the technical and didactical point of view highlighting most of the innovations introduced like the multi-channel evolution, On the other hand they will discuss the international diffusion of the VL and the services and facilities created for the enterprise

E-LEARNING AND ACTUAL LABORATORIES

EDUCATION ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT

REMOTE CONTROL OF ACTUAL INSTRUMENTATION

CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORKS