Design and Implementation of Mobile Clients for Remote Labs

Michael E. Auer, Danilo Garbi Zutin and A.Y. Al-Zoubi

The purpose of the proposed research is to design and implement a LabVIEW-based remote lab client to run on a TCP/IP enabled PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) device, thus teaching using this wireless mLearning system will not be limited by time and location. In addition, resources and equipments can be integrated and shared to the extent that safety events can be monitored and handled in time. An environment will be created to train students to handle factory automation, data acquisition, data management, and manufacturing process using mobile devices. Furthermore, the integration and sharing of teaching equipments via the Internet are emphasized through an environment which promotes learning interests and efficiency using mobile devices.

Author Tool to Create Tutoring Systems for Mobile Devices with Adaptability to Multi-Intelligence Types

Ramón Zatarain, Lucia Barrón-Estrada, Eduardo Urías-Barrientos, Moisés Osorio-Velázquez and Carlos Alberto Reyes Garcia

Tailoring material for mobile learners represents a major challenge. Most of the current work in mobile intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) is more related with personalized systems because, commonly, they do not support any artificial intelligence technique for implementing the adaptive parts in the applications. In this paper, we present an author tool to facilitate the creation of adaptive learning material to be used in handheld devices. The adaptive material uses a pedagogical approach based on the theory of Multiple Intelligences and Fuzzy Logic. Our main contribution is a new author tool which allows instructors to systematically build tutoring systems for groups of mobile learner; everything under a graphic and visual environment. The domain module of each ITS is built by importing SCORM learning objects or other standard file documents. The tool has been tested by producing different types of mobile ITSs. In the paper we present several examples of applications.

m-learning, mobile experimentation and telepresence with cell phones and PDAs

Andreas Bischoff

Mobile devices such as notebooks and PDAs are very interesting tools for web-based teaching and distant teaching today. We have adapted Web-based remote laboratory environments to mobile devices like PDAs and smartphones to remotely control a Pioneer 3 AT mobile robot.