Building an Ecology of Online Laboratories

在这个催化项目中，麻省理工学院教育计算倡议中心与西班牙远程教育大学(UNED)和西班牙德乌斯托大学建立了合作伙伴关系。第一个目标是扩展和集成麻省理工学院S iLabs共享体系结构与使用SCORM标准的开源学习管理系统(LMS)。在线实验室与LMS的结合将允许为多种教育环境定制特定的实验，并仔细跟踪和评估实验室体验的学习目标。第二个目标是制定两个远程实验室体系结构(ISA&amp；WebLab-Deusto)之间的互操作性规范，并为两个体系结构的基础设施更改制定计划，以实现互操作性并制定概念实施验证。不同在线实验室架构和学习管理系统之间互操作性的增强将导致在线实验室生态的可扩展性不断增强。总的来说，在线实验室有可能改变STEM教育，使学生能够通过访问独特和令人兴奋的实验室来积极参与全球合作。它们使新的研究人员和学生社区能够探索现象，并与世界各地的合作伙伴共同参与科学研究。该项目的贡献在于：1)创建互操作性规范，详细说明实现跨体系结构共享在线实验室的要求，并将极大地增加可用的实验室数量；2)创建在线实验室和可共享课程材料的全球共享资源，供学生在其学术生涯中访问；以及3)吸引学生参与独特和令人兴奋的科学实验，有望激发他们对科学和工程领域的兴趣。

In this catalytic project, the Center for Educational Computing Initiatives at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is partnering with the Spanish University of Distance Education (UNED) and the University of Deusto, Spain. The first goal is the expansion and integration of MIT?s iLabs Shared Architecture (ISA) with an open source learning management system (LMS) using SCORM standards. The coupling of online labs with LMSs will allow a particular experiment to be customized for multiple educational environments and for the learning objectives of the lab experience to be carefully tracked and evaluated. The second goal is to develop a specification for interoperability between two remote lab architectures (ISA & WebLab-Deusto) and create a plan for infrastructure changes to both architectures to enable interoperability and develop a proof of concept implementation. The increased interoperability between different online lab architectures and learning management systems will both lead to an increasing scalable ecology of online labs. Online laboratories in general have the potential to transform STEM education by enabling students to actively participate in global collaborations through access to unique and exciting laboratories. They enable new communities of researchers and students to explore phenomena, and jointly engage in scientific inquiry with world-wide partners. This project contributes by: 1) creating an interoperability specification that details the requirements to enable the sharing of online laboratory across architectures and will drastically increase the number of labs available; 2) creation of a shared global resource of online labs and sharable curricular materials that students have access to in the course of their academic careers; and 3) engaging students in unique and exciting scientific experiments that will hopefully capture their interest in science and engineering fields.