ITR: An Infrastructure for Designing and Conducting Remote Laboratories

标题：设计和管理远程实验室的基础设施该ITR媒介奖为远程实验室整合各种资源提供支持，以便用户可以在不同地点的不同实验室中使用多个设备进行实验。用户可以与多个参与者进行协作实验，或者在集成的实验室体验中结合实验和模拟。在开发支持物理和模拟实验室活动的界面时，探索了各种认知和教学设计问题。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。这个项目的智力价值在于该项目所基于的广泛的前期研究。开发远程实验室并将其纳入课程，确定其教学效果，是理工科教育的重要追求。该项目包括来自多个机构的教职员工和学生，从而为研究提供了许多有利条件。该计划由工程局及电脑及资讯科学及工程局共同资助。它是先前工作的延伸，将在工程教室广泛测试，并与ABET认证标准相投诉。为了产生更广泛的影响，教育和研究界将能够共享实验室设施，使比目前更广泛和更快地进入实验室。这本身就会对工程和科学教育产生巨大的积极影响。该项目涉及很大比例的少数民族和女学生，并有可能导致广泛采用远程实验室作为改善学生学习困难工程概念的手段。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简单，但与之相似。在这一特定领域的成功可能意味着可以在广泛的应用中应用于共享其他传感器和执行器网络的技术。

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.