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- Active learning of DC circuits: spreading the use of the VISIR remote lab in ArgentinaPublication . Evangelista, Ignacio; Cadierno, Matías; Farina, Juan; Roldán, Gabriel; García-Zubía, Javier; Hernández, Unai; Alves, Gustavo R.; Pozzo, María I.; Dobboletta, Elsa; Marchisio, Susana; Concari, Sonia; Nilsson, KristianThe VISIR+ Project was launched in 2015 with the objective of spreading the use of the VISIR remote laboratory in Latin America, promoting an enquiry-based approach to teaching and learning on electric and electronic circuits. Within the scope of this project, several didactical implementations were achieved both in Argentina and in Brazil. This article describes the latest implementation of VISIR in a pre-university technical school in Argentina (associated partner of the VISIR+ team) in three Physics courses with students having different background knowledge and interests. A set of activities comprising simulations, remote and hands-on experiments were designed in order to engage students in the learning process. The implementation was assessed in terms of the learning objectives and outcomes. Results showed that VISIR is an effective tool to promote active learning. Moreover, this experience seems highly valuable to encourage the dissemination of VISIR in Argentina
- 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).
- International Cooperation for Remote Laboratory UsePublication . Alves, Gustavo R.; Fidalgo, André; Marques, Maria Arcelina; Viegas, Clara; Felgueiras, Carlos; Costa, Ricardo J.; Lima, Natércia; Castro, Manuel; Díaz-Orueta, Gabriel; SanCristóbal-Ruiz, Elio; García-Loro, Felix; García-Zubía, Javier; Hernández-Jayo, Unai; Kulesza, Wlodek J.; Gustavsson, Ingvar; Nilsson, Kristian; Zackrisson, Johan; Pester, Andreas; Zutin, Danilo G.; Schlichting, Luis C.; Ferreira, Golberi; de Bona, Daniel D.; Pacheco, Fernando S.; da Silva, Juarez B.; Alves, João B.; Biléssimo, Simone; Pavani, Ana M.; Lima, Delberis A.; Temporão, Guilherme; Marchisio, Susana; Concari, Sonia B.; Lerro, Federico; de Arregui, Gaston S.; Merendino, Claudio; Plano, Miguel; Fernández, Rubén A.; Paz, Héctor R.; Soria, Mario F.; Gómez, Mario J.; de Almeida, Nival N.; de Oliveira, Vanderli F.; Pozzo, María I.; Dobboletta, Elsa; Bertramo, BrendaExperimenting is fundamental to the training process of all scientists and engineers. While experiments have been traditionally done inside laboratories, the emergence of Information and Communication Technologies added two alter-natives accessible anytime, anywhere. These two alternatives are known as virtual and remote labs, and are sometimes indistinguishably referred as online labs. Sim-ilarly to other instructional technologies, virtual and remote labs require some ef-fort from teachers in integrating them into curricula, taking into consideration sev-eral factors that affect their adoption (i.e. cost) and their educational effectiveness (i.e. benefit). This chapter analyses these two dimensions and sustains the case where only through international cooperation it is possible to serve the large num-ber of teachers and students involved in engineering education. It presents an ex-ample in the area of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, based on a remote lab named Virtual Instruments System in Reality, and it then describes how a number of European and Latin-American institutions have been cooperating under the scope of an Erasmus+ project2, for spreading its use in Brazil and Argentina.
- Lab sessions in VISIR laboratoriesPublication . Gustavsson, Ingvar; Nilsson, Kristian; Zackrisson, Johan; Alves, Gustavo R.; Fidalgo, André Vaz; Claesson, Lena; Zubía, Javier García; Jayo, Unai Hernández; Castro, Manuel; Orueta, Gabriel Diaz; Loro, Felix GarcíaExperimental activities with real components are an essential part of all courses including or devoted to electrical and electronic circuits theory and practice. The knowledge triangle composed of hand-written exercises, simulations and traditional lab experiments has been enriched with the possibility for students to conduct real experiments over the Internet, using remote labs. This tutorial is devoted to one such remote lab named Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality (VISIR). The Global Online Laboratory Consortium (GOLC) elected VISIR as the best remote controlled laboratory in the world, at the first time this distinction was awarded. At the end of this tutorial, attendees are expected to know what is VISIR, what can (not) be done with it, who is currently using it, and how can one integrate it in a given course curriculum.
- PILAR: Sharing VISIR Remote Labs Through a FederationPublication . Garcia-Loro, Felix; Cristobal, Elio San; Diaz, Gabriel; Castro, Manuel; Orduna, Pablo; Kulesza, Wlodek; Nilsson, Kristian; Fidalgo, André; Alves, Gustavo R.; Hernandez-Jayo, Unai; Garcia-Zubia, Javier; Kreiter, Christian; Pester, Andreas; Auer, Michael; Garcia, 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.
- Preparando estudiantes secundarios para carreras de ingeniería: un estudio de caso utilizando el laboratorio remoto VISIRPublication . Evangelista, Ignacio; Farina, Juan; Marchisio, Susana T.; Concari, Sonia B.; Lerro, Federico G.; Pozzo, Maria; Alves, Gustavo R.; Zubía, Javier García; Hernández-Jayo, Unai; Nilsson, KristianEste trabajo describe una implementación didáctica del laboratorio remoto VISIR en el Instituto Politécnico Superior, en un curso de Física de nivel secundario con una estrategia de aprendizaje inductivo. El estudio presentado se enfoca en el análisis de la influencia de la herramienta utilizada en el entusiasmo de los estudiantes y en la percepción que ellos tienen del efecto de la utilización del laboratorio remoto sobre su aprendizaje. Los resultados indican que la implementación llevada a cabo influye positivamente en la motivación de los estudiantes y en su aprendizaje. Dada la relevancia que tiene la experimentación en la formación en ciencias en nivel secundario, lo obtenido muestra el efecto positivo que esto puede tener en la elección de una carrera universitaria de ingeniería.
- Resultados e Extensões do Projeto VISIR+ no Brasil: Um olhar internacionalPublication . Alves, Gustavo R.; Pozzo, María Isabel; Nilsson, Kristian; Pavani, Ana; Silva, Juarez; Peraça, Mauro TavaresEste livro foi produzido como parte das atividades que couberam à ABENGE no projeto VISIR+, que foi desenvolvido nos anos de 2016 e 2017 e que tem sua aplicação principal na área de Circuitos Elétricos e Eletrônicos com foco preponderante na Engenharia Elétrica e Eletrônica.
- Resultados e Extensões do Projeto VISIR+ no Brasil: Um olhar internacionalPublication . Alves, Gustavo R.; Pozzo, María Isabel; Beltran Pavani, Ana Maria; Silva, Juarez Bento; Oliveira, Vanderli; Peraça, Mauro Tavares; Nilsson, KristianEste livro foi produzido como parte das atividades que couberam à ABENGE no projeto VISIR+, que foi desenvolvido nos anos de 2016 e 2017 e que tem sua aplicação principal na área de Circuitos Elétricos e Eletrônicos com foco preponderante na Engenharia Elétrica e Eletrônica. Os capítulos seguintes, apresentam uma descrição mais detalhada do Projeto. O objetivo precípuo do projeto foi definir, desenvolver e avaliar um conjunto de módulos educacionais que envolvem experimentos práticos, virtuais e remotos, suportados pelo laboratório remoto denominado VISIR, que é um acrônimo para "Virtual Instrument Systems In Reality". O VISIR+ contou com financiamento da European Commission (DG EAC), Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) e National Erasmus+ Offices National Agencies EU Delegations. O coordenador do projeto foi o professor Gustavo Ribeiro Alves do Instituto Politécnico do Porto (IPP) e a equipe foi constituída por docentes das Instituições participantes do projeto.
- The VISIR Open Lab Platform 5.0 - an architecture of a federation of remote laboratoriesPublication . Gustavsson, Ingvar; Nilsson, Kristian; Zackrisson, Johan; García-Zubía, Javier; Alves, Gustavo R.; Hernández-Jayo, Unai; Costa, Ricardo J.This paper outlines a new laboratory learning infrastructure based on the VISIR (Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality) Open Lab Platform, which is an architecture for opening hands-on instructional laboratories for remote access 24/7 with preserved context. The aim is to embrace such laboratories in which telemanipulators can be used to remotely set up and/or start experiments and where the outcome can be observed remotely using instruments, video and/or audio transmission. As hands-on laboratories, VISIR ones can be used for exploring nature and for training laboratory workmanship. The current release (4.1) of the VISIR Open Lab platform can be used for opening electronics laboratories and laboratories for mechanical vibration experiments for remote access. Other subject fields will follow. So far, seven VISIR laboratories are online globally. The coming VISIR Open Lab Platform 5.0 will offer new functionality and will support a federation of VISIR laboratories.
- VISIR+ project - Final Technical ReportPublication . Alves, Gustavo R.; Fidalgo, André V.; Marques, Maria A.; Viegas, Maria C.; Felgueiras, Manuel C.; Costa, Ricardo J.; Lima, Natércia; Castro, Manuel; Díaz-Orueta, Gabriel; SanCristóbal-Ruiz, Elio; García-Loro, Felix; García-Zubía, Javier; Hernández-Jayo, Unai; Kulesza, Wlodek J.; Gustavsson, Ingvar; Nilsson, Kristian; Zackrisson, Johan; Pester, Andreas; Zutin, Danilo G.; Schlichting, Luis C.; Ferreira, Golberi S.; de Bona, Daniel D.; Pacheco, Fernando S.; da Silva, Juarez B.; Alves, João B.; Biléssimo, Simone; Pavani, Ana M.; Lima, Delberis A.; Temporão, Guilherme; Marchision, Susana; Concari, Sonia B.; Lerro, Federico; Arregui, Gastón S. de; Merendino, Claudio; Plano, Miguel; Fernández, Rubén A.; Paz, Héctor R.; Soria, Mario F.; Gómez, Mario J.; Almeida, Nival N. de; Oliveira, Vanderli F. de; Pozzo, María I.; Dobboletta, Elsa; Bertramo, Brenda; Alves, Gustavo; Fidalgo, André; Marques, Maria ArcelinaThis is the final technical report of the VISIR+ project.