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- Experimenting in PILAR Federation: a Common Path for the FuturePublication . Garcia-Loro, Felix; Macho, Alejandro; San Cristobal, Elio; Diaz, Gabriel; Castro, Manuel; Kulesza, Wlodek; Gustavsson, Ingvar; Nilsson, Kristian; Fidalgo, André; Alves, Gustavo R.; Marques, Maria Arcelina; Hernandez-Jayo, Unai; Garcia-Zubia, Javier; Kreiter, Christian; Oros, Ramona; Pester, Andreas; Garbi-Zutin, Danilo; Auer, Michael; Garcia- Hernandez, Carla; Tavio, Ricardo; Valtonen, Kati; Lehtikangas, ElinaThe PILAR (Platform Integration of Laboratories based on the Architecture of visiR) Erasmus Plus project started in September 2016 and will last three years. The core of the PILAR project is the VISIR remote laboratory —Virtual Instruments System In Reality—. The project aims for a federation of five of the existing VISIR nodes, sharing experiments, capacity and resources among partners, and to provide access to VISIR remote lab, through PILAR consortium, to students from other educational institutions. PILAR will be the framework from which management tasks will be performed and laboratories/experiments will be shared. PILAR will also foster the Special Interest Group of VISIR under the Global Online Laboratory Consortium (GOLC) of the International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE).
- PILAR: a Federation of VISIR Remote Laboratory Systems for Educational Open ActivitiesPublication . Garcia-Loro, Felix; Cristobal, Elio San; Diaz, Gabriel; Macho, Alejandro; Baizan, Pablo; Blazquez, Manuel; Castro, Manuel; Plaza, Pedro; Orduna, Pablo; Auer, Michael; Kulesza, Wlodek; Gustavsson, Ingvar; Nilsson, Krostian; Fidalgo, André; Alves, Gustavo R.; Marques, Maria Arcelina; Hernandez-Jayo, Unai; Garcia-Zubia, Javier; Kreiter, Christian; Pester, Andreas; Garcia-Hernandez, Carla; Tavio, Ricardo; Valtonen, Kati; Lehtikangas, ElinaSocial demands have promoted an educational approach based on an “anywhere and anytime” premise. Remote laboratories have emerged as the answer to the demands of technical educational areas for adapting themselves to this scenario. The result has not only benefit distance learning students but has provided new learning scenarios both for teachers and students as well as allowing a flexible approach to experimental topics. However, as any other solution for providing practical scenarios (hands-on labs, virtual labs or simulators), remote labs face several constraints inherited from the subsystems of its deployment hardware (real instruments, equipment and scenario) and software (analog/digital conversions, communications, workbenches, etc.). This paper describes the Erasmus+ project Platform Integration of Laboratories based on the Architecture of visiR (PILAR) which deals with several units of the federation installed in different educational institutions and devoted to analog electronics and electrical circuits. Based on the limitations of remote labs, the need for the federation will be justified and its benefits will be described by taking advantage of its strengths. The challenges that have come up during the different stages and the different approaches to design are also going to be described and analyzed
- PILAR: Plataforma de federación de laboratorios remotos VISIR de electrónica analógicaPublication . Hernandez-Jayo, Unai; Garcia-Zubia, Javier; Castro, Manuel; Garcia Loro, Felix; Valtonen, Kati; San Cristobal, Elio; Díaz Orueta, Gabriel; Macho, Alejandro; Alves, Gustavo R.; Fidalgo, André; Marques, Maria Arcelina; Pester, Andreas; Kreiter, Christian; Ursutiu, Doru; Garcia, CarlaResumen—Los laboratorios remotos son ya una herramienta de enseñanza/aprendizaje en diferentes campos de la ingeniería y de la ciencia. El laboratorio remoto VISIR es un ejemplo paradigmático de esta nueva metodología en el campo de la electrónica analógica ya que el alumno puede montar y medir circuitos reales de un modo satisfactorio. En la actualidad en Europa hay cinco instancias desplegadas y activas de VISIR y en Sudamérica hay 5 más, cada una de ellas ofrece distintos circuitos eléctricos y electrónicos de manera que el usuario debe saber dónde está desplegado el circuito que él quiere montar y desplegar para poder acceder a él, lo que es una clara limitación. La solución al problema pasa por federar dicho grupo de laboratorios remotos
- Remote laboratory VISIR: recent advances, initiatives, federation, limitations and futurePublication . Garcia-Loro, Felix; Macho, Alejandro; Castro, Manuel; Alves, Gustavo R.; Marques, Maria Arcelina; Lima, Natércia; Rodriguez-Gil, Luis; Najimaldeen, Razwan; Fernandez, Ricardo MartinThis document reflects the contribution of a group of experts in the VISIR (Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality) remote lab, regarding recent advances, initiatives, federation, limitations and future. The methodology for gathering their opinion consisted of a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis on VISIR, following three categories: Technical, Pedagogical and Educational. Major conclusions point to: (1) a need for new technical developments taking advantage of collaborative work; (2) a window of opportunity for expanding VISIR to other institutions, namely in developing countries; and (3) improving the interface for a better pedagogical experience, namely with better error feedback or the inclusion of a virtual tutor.