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During the last decade, efforts have been made in the development and publishing of remote experiments for educational purposes. In order to reduce the duplicity of work and to improve the common requirements that are shared by different remote laboratories, remote experiment management platforms have been developed, such as MIT iLabs, LabShare Sahara or WebLab-Deusto. In this paper, we describe how the development of experiments is handled in WebLab-Deusto, supporting both managed (developed used the APIs provided by WebLab-Deusto) and unmanaged experiments (using Virtual Machines or LabVIEW), and comparing both approaches. It also shows the results of integrating remote experiments under this system, with the use case of VISIR, the electronics remote laboratory developed in BTH. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Remote laboratories are the natural solution in order to perform real experimentation under e-learning tools. Nevertheless these tools are the result of the research developed by the universities to cover their own needs without having in consideration the deployment of this technology by other institutions. This paper presents a hw prototype for a Remote Lab for microcontrollers that tries to solve these problems contributing new possibilities from the commercial and professional point of view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the engineering curriculum, remote labs are becoming a popular learning tool. The advantages of these laboratories and the different deployments have been analyzed many times, but in this paper we want to show the results of the students' opinion about WebLab-Deusto as a learning tool. This work is focused on the subjects Programmable Logic (PL) in the third year of Electronics Engineering and in Electronics Design (ED) of the fifth year of the same degree. The paper presents the results of the surveys done by students since 2004. This survey consists of fifteen questions and its main objective is to measure the acceptance, usability and usefulness of the remote laboratory developed at University of Deusto from the students point of view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Traditionally, Remote Laboratories have been focused on specific solutions for specific problems. We can find a wide range of Remote Laboratories in the literature [1], assisting very different types of subjects (electronics, robotics, optics, fluids mechanics...), but commonly bound to a restricted set of requirements. Because of this, little attention has been paid on working on a scalable, maintainable, secure, open architecture that addresses the requirements of a wide set of experiments, and that could be open enough to support or adapt itself to new experiments. In this paper, we describe several aspects that might be taken into account when designing a Remote Laboratory architecture, resulted from the iterative development of our Remote Laboratory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Faculty of Engineering of the University of Deusto has had available a WebLab oriented to Microelectronics since 2001. Currently, the field of WebLab design is very active, and several other universities are adopting them as a sign of quality and distinction for Microelectronics teaching. The first part of this paper shows several requirements that a WebLab should meet and the next points discuss three remarkable aspects of WebLab-DEUSTO: a) its distinctive software-hardware architecture b) its use with a mobile telephone and c) the evaluation of its use by the students and the academic results they obtained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Most of the times, remote labs developers spend many time building a software architecture to control equipments located in the lab. Sometimes during this long process we forget the objective of the WebLab: to be a learning tool. Using defined standards we can save time creating universal and powerful WebLabs. LXI is an standard to control devices via Ethernet that can be used to this purpose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]