Principles for the Design of a Remote Laboratory: A Case Study on ERRL
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2010
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Çağıltay, Nergiz
Aydın, Elif
Kara, Ali
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IEEE
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Abstract
Remote laboratories are getting very popular in
engineering education programs. However, there are not many
studies addressing the requirements and design issues of such
laboratories. This paper discusses the results of a study of the
requirements for developing a remote Radio Frequency (RF)
laboratory for university students. This study draws on the
perspectives of the students at the university, department of
electrical engineering. The results are based on a research
study established by 111 engineering students from France,
Germany, Romania and Turkey. It investigates how students
would like to use the technical content of a state of the art RF
laboratory. The result of this study is also compared with the
previous outcomes showing perspectives of the other learner
groups of such laboratories; engineers and technicians in the
technical colleges on the Radio Frequency (RF) domain.
Considering the outcomes developed so far, some principles
that need to be considered while designing and developing such
a laboratory have been proposed. As a case study the proposed
principles are implemented in a remote laboratory project. In
this paper, the details of user requirements of such
laboratories, the proposed principles and the implementation
examples are all provided and discussed. Primarily, the general
aim of this study is to guide remote laboratory platform
developers towards the most effective design of their platforms.
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