Development of a Remote Laboratory Management System and Integration with Social Networks F. Lerro 1 , P. Orduña 2 , S. Marchisio 1 , J. García-Zubía 3 1 Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura. Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina 2 DeustoTech - Deusto Institute of Technology, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain 3 Faculty of Engineering, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain ICBL CONFERENCE 2013 – Florianópolis, Brazil November 6 – November 8, 2013
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Development of a Remote Laboratory Management System and Integration with Social Networks
The focus of this contribution is to propose a novel centralized authentication and authorization system, which can be used to share laboratories. This system optionally relies on existing mechanisms, such as those used by universities -e.g., Shibboleth, OpenID- or by social networks -e.g., Facebook Connect or Google with OAuth-. However, it still supports schools or universities not counting with an existing system, by providing its own system. The authentication and authorization system will be registered in other RLMSs. This way, users registered in the central system can consume laboratories from other institutions. This development is part of a project that includes the integration of the FCEIA-UNR lab with social networks. Based upon a previous development of a Remote Laboratory Management System at Universidad de Deusto, the authors also explain the advantages and drawbacks of the centralized approach.
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Development of a Remote Laboratory Management System and Integration
with Social Networks
F. Lerro1, P. Orduña2, S. Marchisio1, J. García-Zubía3
1 Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura. Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina2 DeustoTech - Deusto Institute of Technology, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
3 Faculty of Engineering, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
ICBL CONFERENCE 2013 – Florianópolis, BrazilNovember 6 – November 8, 2013F. Lerro, P. Orduña, S. Marchisio, J. García-Zubía
The ScenarioSharing laboratories and the use of social networks at the University
Previous DevelopmentStep by Step
This ProjectThe characteristics of the implementation
Conclusions
Development of a Remote Laboratory Management System and Integration with Social Networks
Facebook
Almost all students at UNR have an account Allows communication between students and teachers Use of Facebook groups Allows OAuth for authentication
No user’s category (all users have the same priority)No connection with our labNot prepared for education
ICBL CONFERENCE 2013 – Florianópolis, BrazilNovember 6 – November 8, 2013F. Lerro, P. Orduña, S. Marchisio, J. García-Zubía
The ScenarioSharing laboratories and the use of social networks at the University
Previous DevelopmentStep by Step
This ProjectThe characteristics of the implementation
Conclusions
Development of a Remote Laboratory Management System and Integration with Social Networks
Integration with WebLab-Deusto
FCEIA Remote Laboratory can access to WebLab-Deusto’s experiments
WebLab-Deusto users can access to FCEIA Remote Laboratory
Simple integration
ICBL CONFERENCE 2013 – Florianópolis, BrazilNovember 6 – November 8, 2013F. Lerro, P. Orduña, S. Marchisio, J. García-Zubía
The ScenarioSharing laboratories and the use of social networks at the University
Previous DevelopmentStep by Step
This ProjectThe characteristics of the implementation
Conclusions
Development of a Remote Laboratory Management System and Integration with Social Networks
Integration with WebLab-Deusto
ICBL CONFERENCE 2013 – Florianópolis, BrazilNovember 6 – November 8, 2013F. Lerro, P. Orduña, S. Marchisio, J. García-Zubía
The ScenarioSharing laboratories and the use of social networks at the University
Previous DevelopmentStep by Step
This ProjectThe characteristics of the implementation
Conclusions
Development of a Remote Laboratory Management System and Integration with Social Networks
How we conceive the educational process
The active participation and collaboration of students and teachers in the production of knowledge is becoming an important teaching strategy.
In the scientific technologic experimental training, the role of the practice laboratory is essential
Among the great variety of didactic resources, the remote laboratory is a tool “at the service of”, that can be integrated at any time to support learning activities.
ICBL CONFERENCE 2013 – Florianópolis, BrazilNovember 6 – November 8, 2013F. Lerro, P. Orduña, S. Marchisio, J. García-Zubía
The ScenarioSharing laboratories and the use of social networks at the University
Previous DevelopmentStep by Step
This ProjectThe characteristics of the implementation
Conclusions
Development of a Remote Laboratory Management System and Integration with Social Networks
ICBL CONFERENCE 2013 – Florianópolis, BrazilNovember 6 – November 8, 2013F. Lerro, P. Orduña, S. Marchisio, J. García-Zubía
• First remote Lab at FCEIA created by students2007
• Improvements made after students critics2008
• Full implementation of the lab and new experiments added2009
• Total acceptation by students2010
• New remote laboratories projects2011
• E-ducativa LMS integration and new laboratory added2012
• Federated to WebLab-Deusto2013
The ScenarioSharing laboratories and the use of social networks at the University
Previous DevelopmentStep by Step
This ProjectThe characteristics of the implementation
Conclusions
Development of a Remote Laboratory Management System and Integration with Social Networks
ICBL CONFERENCE 2013 – Florianópolis, BrazilNovember 6 – November 8, 2013F. Lerro, P. Orduña, S. Marchisio, J. García-Zubía
Building a RLMS
RLMS
Laboratories
Experiments
The ScenarioSharing laboratories and the use of social networks at the University
Previous DevelopmentStep by Step
This ProjectThe characteristics of the implementation
Conclusions
Development of a Remote Laboratory Management System and Integration with Social Networks
ICBL CONFERENCE 2013 – Florianópolis, BrazilNovember 6 – November 8, 2013F. Lerro, P. Orduña, S. Marchisio, J. García-Zubía
Requirements
Easy share of the Laboratory to educational institutions with no infrastructure rather than Internet access
Social networks authentication in addition to local authentication
Users with different permissions (administrators, teachers, students, tutors)
Possibility of adding new laboratories easily in spite of lab’s architecture
LMS integration WebLab-Deusto federation
The ScenarioSharing laboratories and the use of social networks at the University
Previous DevelopmentStep by Step
This ProjectThe characteristics of the implementation
Conclusions
Development of a Remote Laboratory Management System and Integration with Social Networks
ICBL CONFERENCE 2013 – Florianópolis, BrazilNovember 6 – November 8, 2013F. Lerro, P. Orduña, S. Marchisio, J. García-Zubía
Proposed user’s administration layout
FCEIA Remote Laboratory
Administrator
Institution A Administrator
Classroom A Teacher
Students
Classroom B Teacher
Students
Institution B Administrator
Classroom A Teacher
Students
Institution n Administrator
Classroom n Teacher
Students
The ScenarioSharing laboratories and the use of social networks at the University
Previous DevelopmentStep by Step
This ProjectThe characteristics of the implementation
Conclusions
Development of a Remote Laboratory Management System and Integration with Social Networks
ICBL CONFERENCE 2013 – Florianópolis, BrazilNovember 6 – November 8, 2013F. Lerro, P. Orduña, S. Marchisio, J. García-Zubía
Characteristics of the implementation
Easy share of the lab to other institutions means centralized system
Teachers can check the evolution of the learning curve of their students on labs that allows it
The system only handles authorization and authentication (microRLMS)
As microRLMS makes it more flexible on the addition of new laboratories with different architectures
A software library was made to facilitate the integration with existing laboratories all over the world
The existing labs at FCEIA are now independent software to the MicroRLMS
The ScenarioSharing laboratories and the use of social networks at the University
Previous DevelopmentStep by Step
This ProjectThe characteristics of the implementation
Conclusions
Development of a Remote Laboratory Management System and Integration with Social Networks
ICBL CONFERENCE 2013 – Florianópolis, BrazilNovember 6 – November 8, 2013F. Lerro, P. Orduña, S. Marchisio, J. García-Zubía
The ScenarioSharing laboratories and the use of social networks at the University
Previous DevelopmentStep by Step
This ProjectThe characteristics of the implementation
Conclusions
Development of a Remote Laboratory Management System and Integration with Social Networks
ICBL CONFERENCE 2013 – Florianópolis, BrazilNovember 6 – November 8, 2013F. Lerro, P. Orduña, S. Marchisio, J. García-Zubía
The ScenarioSharing laboratories and the use of social networks at the University
Previous DevelopmentStep by Step
This ProjectThe characteristics of the implementation
Conclusions
Development of a Remote Laboratory Management System and Integration with Social Networks
ICBL CONFERENCE 2013 – Florianópolis, BrazilNovember 6 – November 8, 2013F. Lerro, P. Orduña, S. Marchisio, J. García-Zubía
Social Networks integration
Remote Laboratory as Facebook application Facebook or Twitter user to authenticate
The ScenarioSharing laboratories and the use of social networks at the University
Previous DevelopmentStep by Step
This ProjectThe characteristics of the implementation
Conclusions
Development of a Remote Laboratory Management System and Integration with Social Networks
ICBL CONFERENCE 2013 – Florianópolis, BrazilNovember 6 – November 8, 2013F. Lerro, P. Orduña, S. Marchisio, J. García-Zubía
Pros
Simple authentication and authorization with Social Networks
Deployed in cloud basis (centralized) Easy sharing New laboratories available to all institutions Low learning curve (very easy to use) Can also be installed on multiple servers Compatible with traditional RLMS
ConsSingle point of failureNo possibility of using local directory servers
The ScenarioSharing laboratories and the use of social networks at the University
Previous DevelopmentStep by Step
This ProjectThe characteristics of the implementation
Conclusions
Development of a Remote Laboratory Management System and Integration with Social Networks
ICBL CONFERENCE 2013 – Florianópolis, BrazilNovember 6 – November 8, 2013F. Lerro, P. Orduña, S. Marchisio, J. García-Zubía
Final Comments
This system provides institutions with no infrastructure the possibility of accessing remote laboratories all over the world
It can be adapted to different type of systems The schedule or queue is managed by the final lab, but no
by the microRLMS It can be created different categories of users and groups
Development of a Remote Laboratory Management System and Integration with Social Networks
ICBL CONFERENCE 2013 – Florianópolis, BrazilNovember 6 – November 8, 2013F. Lerro, P. Orduña, S. Marchisio, J. García-Zubía
Keywords
SharingSimplerMultiplatformScalableConnected
Development of a Remote Laboratory Management System and Integration
with Social Networks
F. Lerro1, P. Orduña2, S. Marchisio1, J. García-Zubía3
1 Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura. Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina2 DeustoTech - Deusto Institute of Technology, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
3 Faculty of Engineering, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain