Abstract
The impact of distance learning (DL) is increasing daily. Such an educational delivery mode intends to serve the desire of both students and their instructors for scheduling freedom. Further, engineering education also has a costly component that is not directly time related: the use of sophisticated equipment. A subset of DL efforts is that of web-based laboratory experiments. Most investigators are delivering experiments via the Internet, but targeted to a single on-line user. Presented here is a different approach that stimulates teaming, even when simultaneous remote users are geographically dispersed. Students do not share the same physical location, but rather a virtual one: a multi-user laboratory platform. Within the paper, this philosophical approach and the implementation details (including chat, video, archiving, hardware and software platforms) are explained. One of the main advantages offered by a virtual laboratory is that students from all over the world can use the equipment located in a particular physical laboratory. The particular hardware employed here is organized around a spectrum analyzer.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings |
Pages | 8395-8408 |
Number of pages | 14 |
State | Published - 2003 |
Event | 2003 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition: Staying in Tune with Engineering Education - Nashville, TN, United States Duration: Jun 22 2003 → Jun 25 2003 |
Other
Other | 2003 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition: Staying in Tune with Engineering Education |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Nashville, TN |
Period | 6/22/03 → 6/25/03 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Engineering(all)