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<p>Educational laboratories are places for realizing experimentations and they are important for modern engineering education. The problem is what if there are simply not enough devices or time for conducting experimentation in a local lab? Other factors that prevent the use of local lab devices directly by students are inaccessible or dangerous phenomena, or polluting chemical reactions. The new technologies bring additional strategies of learning and teaching, so it becomes a challenge to integrate the information and communication technologies ICT into the engineering sciences learning. Nowadays, there are two types of online labs, virtual and remote labs. Virtual labs that provide simulation environments for experimentations, remote labs are based on conducting the experimentation remotely through the Internet. In this paper, an example of a successful development and deployment of a cloud based remote lab in the field of engineering education, integrated in the Moodle platform, using very low-coast, high documented devices and free software. The remote lab is user friendly for both trainers and students.</p>
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Educational laboratories are places for realizing experimentations and they are important for modern engineering education. The problem is what if there are simply not enough devices or time for conducting experimentation in a local lab? Other factors that prevent the use of local lab devices directly by students are inaccessible or dangerous phenomena, or polluting chemical reactions. The new technologies bring additional strategies of learning and teaching, so it becomes a challenge to integrate the information and communication technologies ICT into the engineering sciences learning. Nowadays, there are two types of online labs, virtual and remote labs. Virtual labs that provide simulation environments for experimentations, remote labs are based on conducting the experimentation remotely through the Internet. In this paper, an example of a successful development and deployment of a cloud based remote lab in the field of engineering education, integrated in the Moodle platform, using very low-coast, high documented devices and free software. The remote lab is user friendly for both trainers and students.

The Implementation of a Cloud System for Electronics Learning in a Moroccan Public University

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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Educational laboratories are places for realizing experimentations and they are important for modern engineering education. The problem is what if there are...

The Implementation of a Cloud System for Electronics Learning in a Moroccan Public University

Published Online: Dec 01, 2016

Page range: 2051 - 2068

Received: Aug 16, 2016

Accepted: Nov 05, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-952

Keywords
Remote lab, Cloud, Online learning, Moodle, Arduino, Engineering education, web 2.0

© 2016 Khalid Ghoulam et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

The Implementation of a Cloud System for Electronics Learning in a Moroccan Public University

Published Online: Dec 01, 2016

Page range: 2051 - 2068

Received: Aug 16, 2016

Accepted: Nov 05, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-952

KeywordsRemote lab, Cloud, Online learning, Moodle, Arduino, Engineering education, web 2.0

© 2016 Khalid Ghoulam et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Remote lab, Cloud, Online learning, Moodle, Arduino, Engineering education, web 2.0