dotLAB: Integrating remote labs in dotLRN
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Pesquera, Alberto; Morales, Raul; Pastor, Rafael; Ros, Salvador; Hernandez, Roberto; Sancristobal, Elio; Castro, Manuel
- Source
- 2011 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON) Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2011 IEEE. :111-117 Apr, 2011
- Subject
- General Topics for Engineers
Engineering Profession
Laboratories
Communities
Least squares approximation
Engineering education
Portals
Electronic learning
Standards
e-learning
LMS
dotLRN
remote labs
virtual labs
e-learning standards
Web services
- Language
- ISSN
- 2165-9559
2165-9567
Nowadays, there are a great number of universities and organizations working in e-learning solutions. One of most well-known is the learning management system or LMS that allow displaying theoretical content in an organized and controlled way. In some jobs and studies it is necessary that the student get a practical knowledge as well as a theoretical knowledge. To obtain this practical knowledge, the universities and organizations are developing virtual labs and Web labs. At these moments the LMS and Web labs are working independently. We are designing and developing a new architecture allowing the integration of the LMS with different Web labs from different universities. This architecture must allow the student, teachers and administrators to use the LMS's services and virtual labs as if he was working with the same software‥