«Analyzing the use of remote laboratories. The experience with WebLab-Deusto»

Abstract

A remote lab is a software and hardware tool that allows students to access real labs over the Internet. They go on to practice as if they were in front of the equipment, but from home or other locations. WebLab-Deusto is a tool that allows you to easily develop, manage and maintain remote laboratories. One of the features it provides is to store the interaction between the students and the equipment in such a way that it is possible to do analytics on it. In this way, it is possible to measure how students work and interact while doing the laboratory practices.

The presentation will focus on showing what data is stored (working on a record of more than 60k uses processed since 2009), the dashboard that WebLab-Deusto provides to view this data and analyzes that can be performed on it. In addition, other analytics that have been carried out on this data will be presented, such as the analysis of social networks extracted from the uses made, and factors to take into account such as the impact of sharing the equipment automatically with other universities and the analysis that can be done about them.

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Pablo Orduña is a researcher and project manager at DeustoTech, the technological research center of the University of Deusto, where he has worked on different projects in ambient intelligence and technology applied to education. He works full time on research projects, although he occasionally teaches classes (Master’s degree at Deusto, PhD at UNR in Argentina, or GSP at Singularity University in Silicon Valley). He received his doctorate in 2013 from the University of Deusto, doing two research stays at MIT and UNED. He is the main developer of WebLab-Deusto since 2004, having received the MIT TR35 Spain award in 2012 for this work.

Javier García Zubía has a degree and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Deusto, and is currently a professor in the Department of Industrial Technologies at the Faculty of Engineering. His main area of research is the design, deployment and evaluation of remote laboratories in educational settings. He is a senior member of the IEEE society.