ITR: An Infrastructure for Designing and Conducting Remote Laboratories

EIA 0326309 Sven Esche Institution：Stevens Institute of Technology Title：An Infrastructure for Designing and Conducting Remote Laboratories该ITR中等奖为集成远程实验室的各种资源提供支持，以便用户可以在不同位置的不同实验室中运行涉及多个设备的实验。用户可以与多个参与者进行协作实验，或在集成的实验室体验中将联合收割机实验和模拟结合起来。在开发一个界面，以支持物理和模拟实验室活动的各种认知和教学设计问题进行了探讨。作为研究的一部分，研究人员将创建替代界面，并评估它们的教学效果。该项目的智力价值在于该项目所基于的广泛的先前研究。开发远程实验室并将其纳入课程以及确定其教学效果是科学、技术和工程教育的重要追求。该项目包括来自多个机构的工作人员和学生，从而使其能够获得许多研究的Vantage位置。该项目由工程和计算机与信息科学与工程局共同资助。这是以前的工作，是要在工程教室进行广泛的测试，并与ABET认证标准的投诉的延伸。为了更广泛的影响，教育和研究界将能够共享实验室设施，使更广泛和更快地进入实验室比现在的时间。这本身就可能对工程和科学教育产生巨大的积极影响。该项目涉及的少数民族学生和女生比例很高，有可能导致广泛采用远程实验室，作为改善学生学习困难的工程概念的一种手段。此外，为远程实验室创建框架的技术挑战比其他科学和工业问题更简单，但类似于其他科学和工业问题。在这一特定领域的成功可能表明，可以在广泛的应用中应用于共享其他传感器和致动器网络的技术。

EIA 0326309 Sven Esche Institution: Stevens Institute of Technology Title: An Infrastructure for Designing and Conducting Remote Laboratories This ITR medium award provides support for integrating a variety of resources for remote laboratories so that users can run experiments involving multiple devices in different labs in different locations. Users can perform collaborative experiments with multiple participants or combine experiments and simulations in an integrated lab experience. While developing an interface to support both physical and simulated laboratory activities various cognitive and instructional design issues are explored. As part of the research, the investigators will create alternative interfaces and evaluate them for pedagogical efficacy.The intellectual merit of this project lies with the extensive prior research on which the project is based. Developing remote laboratories and including them in the curriculum as well as ascertaining their pedagogical efficacy are important pursuits for science, technology and engineering education. The project includes staff and students from multiple institutions thus giving it access to many vantage points for the research. The project is co-funded by the Engineering and Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorates. It is an extension of prior work that is to be tested extensively in engineering classrooms and is complaint with the ABET accreditation standards.For broader impact, the education and research communities will be able to share laboratory facilities, enabling wider and faster access to laboratories than at the present time. This in itself could have a large positive impact on engineering and science education. The project involves significant percentages of ethnic minority and female students and has the potential to lead to the widespread adoption of remote laboratories as a means for improving student learning of difficult engineering concepts. Furthermore, the technology challenges of creating a framework for remote laboratories are simpler than, but analogous to other scientific and industrial problems. Success in this particular domain may suggest techniques that can be applied for sharing other sensor and actuator networks in a wide range of applications.