FORGE Keynote @ IT Mexicali, October 2015

Enhancing engineering learning through remote experimenta2on

FP7-‐ICT-‐610889 FORGE project

Dr. Johann M. Marquez-‐Barja Research Fellow – Adjunct Lecturer Trinity College Dublin, Ireland [email protected] / www.marquez-‐barja.com

19 octubre 2015 Ins2tuto Tecnológico de Mexicali.

Mexicali, México

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Jeff Sheldon

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Consortium members of the FORGE project

Acknowledgements

Sue Huan

Successful engineering is all about understanding how

things break or fail Henry Petroski

Learning and educa2on •  Learning underpins human society as an essen2al ac2vity for societal advancement as well as personal well-‐being

•  2009 the European Union budget on educa2on was 6.2% of the European Gross Domes2c Product

•  Recent economy crash has forced a reduc2on in educa2onal in several countries

•  Innova2ve solu2ons to provision cost-‐effec2ve high quality learning are needed

"FORGE: Enhancing elearning and research in ICT through remote experimentation", Johann M. Marquez-Barja, Guillaume Jourjon, Mikroyannidis Alexander, Christos Tranoris, John Domingue, Luiz A. DaSilva. IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON14). pp 1157-1163. April, 2014. Istambul, Turkey . ISBN 978-1-4799-3191-0.

Engineering and experimenta2on •  To understand physics and engineering phenomena, in par2cular wireless communica2ons and its physical proper2es, it is of extremely importance to reinforce and to demonstrate the concepts taught in the lectures

•  The most effec2ve way to demonstrate such physical proper2es and the impairments of wireless signals is through radio laboratories

"Virtualizing testbed resources to enable remote experimentation in online telecommunications education", Johann M. Marquez-Barja, Nicholas Kaminski, Francisco Paisana, Christos Tranoris, Luiz A. DaSilva. IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON15). pp 822-829. March, 2015. Tallinn, Estonia . ISBN 978-1-4799-1907-9/15/.

Engineering and experimenta2on

•  Physical experimentaDon •  Expensive, in par2cular for low-‐

budget ins2tu2ons •  Deploying and maintaining

experimental facili2es is costly •  Developing cuXng edge

telecommunica2ons technologies requires massive effort and budget

•  Learners constrained by loca2on and lab opening hours

"Assessing the impact of remote hands-on experimentation on engineering students", Johann M. Marquez-Barja, Nicholas Kaminski, Guillaume Jourjon, Jono Vanhie-Van Gerwen, Daan Pareit,, Luiz A. DaSilva. IEEE Transactions on Education. [In preparation], 2015.

•  Online laboratories •  Online laboratories provide remote

access to experiments allowing students to access experiments without 2me and loca2on restric2ons

•  FORGE’s ini2a2ve towards empowering educa2on by enabling hands-‐on remote experimenta2on

•  Trinity College Dublin is focused on enhancing online telecommunica2ons engineering educa2on by enabling hands-‐on remote experimenta2on over its Smart Reconfigurable Radio Testbed

Experimentation is a key component of engineering education

Online laboratories

•  Virtual labs •  so^ware-‐based laboratories •  simula2on tools

•  Remote labs •  Experimenta2on on real lab equipment

•  Hybrid labs •  Output data from real measurements/equipment •  Processed by simula2on tools

Summarized taxonomy

“Virtual Labs Project: A Paradigm Shift in Internet-Based Remote Experimentation,” R. Bose, IEEE Access, vol. 1, pp. 718–725, 2013. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access 2013.2286202

Educa2onal paradigms

Self Regulated Learning

Students learn at their own pace

Flipped Classroom Paradigm

FIRE Future Internet Research and Experimenta2on

Future Internet Research Experimenta2on (FIRE)

•  FIRE ini2a2ve is a European endeavour that promotes the crea2on of wide-‐scale federa2ons of high-‐ performance testbed and experimenta2on facili2es for internet and network-‐related research.

•  >40 million EUR investment

Example testbed •  Trinity College Dublin – Smart Reconfigurable Radio Testbed

Smart Reconfigurable Radio Testbed

Example testbed

Example testbed •  iMinds w-‐iLab.t

Example testbed •  iMinds Virtual Wall

Some FIRE facili2es…

FORGE Forging Online Educa2on through FIRE

Forging Online Educa2on through FIRE (FORGE) FORGE is a project bringing the FIRE and eLearning worlds together. In par2cular, FORGE will align FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimenta2on) with the ongoing educa2on revolu2on as found for example in MOOCs FORGE will specify development methodologies and best prac2ces for offering FIRE experimenta2on facili2es to learners and to the learning community in general The project leads to a strong connec2on between the learning community and exis2ng FIRE plahorms and suppor2ng tools

Consor2um

FORGE objec2ves •  FORGE is transforming the FIRE facili2es, already vital for European research, into a learning resource for higher educa2on, enabling educators to easily create experiment-‐based learning resources

•  From an educa2onal perspec2ve FORGE promotes the no2on of Self-‐Regulated Learning (a.k.a. independent learning or auto-‐didac2c learning)

•  FORGE allows educators to create, use and re-‐use FIRE-‐based learning experiences through our tools and techniques

•  FORGE enables equity of access to the latest ICT systems and tools independent of loca2on and at low cost. Experimental facili2es are expensive!!!

FORGE architecture •  Linked data

•  Delivery and naviga2on of learning materials

• Widget store •  Storing, sharing interac2ve widgets for experimenta2on

•  Interfacing FIRE faciliDes •  Booking, using, configuring the FIRE testbeds to perform the experiments

Lab course design process

FORGEBox

Lab Course

resources

Button

Button

txt txt

Lab Course descrip2ons

LC designer

Import LCs

FORGEBox control panel

FORGE repository

LCs Widgets

FIRE Adapta2ons

Administer

Widgets layer

FIRE Adaptations layer

Widget Widget

Widget

Adapter

Adapter

Adapter

Import widgets

Import Adapters

Get LC descrip2on

Get widget Content (HTML5/

JSON)

FIRE Testbed

Interac2ve Content (JSON/XML)

FORGEBox managing services

FRCP/SFA/SSH "FORGE Toolkit: Leveraging Distributed Systems in eLearning Platforms", Guillaume

Jourjon, Johann M. Marquez-Barja, Thierry Rakotoarivelo, Alexander Mikroyannidis, Kostas Lampropoulos, Spyros Denazis, Christos Tranoris, Daan Pareit, John Domingue, Luiz A.

DaSilva, Max Ott. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. [Under revision], 2015.

•  Cross-‐plahorm: virtually any plahorm •  Modern web browser •  FORGEBox •  Any LMS suppor2ng iframes •  Apple iBook •  EPUB3

Resul2ng web widgets + iBook

Evalua2ng the impact on Students • Qualita2ve

•  Surveys •  Ques2onnaires

•  Cuan2ta2ve •  Learning analy2cs

FORGE Methodology

"Deploying Learning Analytics for Online Scientific Experimentation", Alexander Mikroyannidis, Aitor Gomez-Goiri, John Domingue, Christos Tranoris, Daan Pareit, Jono Vanhie-Van Gerwen, Johann M. Marquez-Barja. 5th Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology Enhanced Learning (ARTEL 2015), satellite workshop of the 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning. pp 105-112. September, 2015. Toledo, Spain

"A methodology for the design, delivery and evaluation of learning resources for remote experimentation", Alexander Mikroyannidis, Aitor Gomez-Goiri, John Domingue, Christos Tranoris, Johann M. Marquez-Barja. IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON16). [In preparation], 2015. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates .

"Assessing the impact of remote hands-on experimentation on engineering students", Johann M. Marquez-Barja, Nicholas Kaminski, Guillaume Jourjon, Jono Vanhie-Van Gerwen, Daan Pareit,, Luiz A. DaSilva. IEEE Transactions on Education. [In preparation], 2015.

FORGE Networking Courses

FORGE Networking courses iBook •  FORGE has released a version of an interac2ve electronic book for the iPad and MacOS. The book contains a number of networking courses produced by FORGE that use FIRE facili2es for introducing basic networking concepts to the reader/learner. The materials provided in this book include course text and interac2ve mul2media, real equipment labs, remote access testbeds, as well as different types of learning ac2vi2es.

•  (Live Demo of the iBook at IT Mexicali, if connec2vity at the venue is available)

FORGE Networking courses iBook

Coexistence of small cells in radar bands Remote lab-‐based course

www.ict-forge.eu www.fed4fire.eu www.ict-fire.eu

www.crew-project.eu

Use case @ 5C2 – Master module in Trinity College Dublin

"Virtualized Wireless Testbeds", Nicholas J. Kaminski, Johann M. Marquez-Barja, and Luiz A. DaSilva.IEEE Transactions.. [In preparation], 2015.

"Virtualizing testbed resources to enable remote experimentation in online telecommunications education", Johann M. Marquez-Barja, Nicholas

Kaminski, Francisco Paisana, Christos Tranoris, Luiz A. DaSilva. IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON15). pp 822-829.

March, 2015. Tallinn, Estonia . ISBN 978-1-4799-1907-9/15/.

Coexistence of small cells in radar bands Remote lab-‐based course

FORGE courses and materials used by…

“Mobile & Broadband Access Networks” Ghent University, Belgium

“Wireless Networks & Communica2on Systems” Trinity College, Ireland “TCP conges2on control lab course” University of Patras, Greece Architecture des Réseaux / Computer Network UPMC, France

FORGE courses and materials used by…

“OFDM wireless signals” Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil “Dynamic Spectrum Access” and “Local Area Networks” InsLtuto Tecnologico de Mexicali, Mexico

“Local Area Networks” and “ODFM Wireless Course” Universidade de Brasil, Brazil “Networks & Security” Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Open Call Join the FORGE community

Opening the FORGE plahorm

+ any combinaLon of the above!

Educator/ Learner • Deploy an exis2ng FORGE course (as-‐is) • Transform a tradi2onal course into an experiment-‐driven one • Design a new FORGE lab course • Extend an exis2ng FORGE course • Create interac2ve educa2onal material (eBook)

Developer • Develop new widgets and/or FIRE adapters

Provider • Offer a testbed for remote experimenta2on

How to apply •  Single stage submission, via e-‐mail •  Very simple applica2on form

• Next cut-‐off date: Tuesday, 10 November 2015

• More info & documenta2on at: hvp://ict-‐forge.eu/opencall •  Contact: opencall@ict-‐forge.eu

Take away message

•  FORGE studies and develops new processes to online learning enhanced by remote experimenta2on on high-‐performance testbed facili2es

•  FORGE reinforces and complements the tradi2onal online courses with interac2ve online hands-‐on laboratories

•  FORGE enables equity of access to the latest ICT systems and tools independent of loca2on and at low cost.

•  FORGE strengths the culture of online experimenta2on tools and remote facili2es.

More informa2on… www.ict-‐forge.eu info@ict-‐forge.eu

Download our Networking courses

iBook for free!

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no. 610889

Enhancing engineering learning through remote experimenta2on

FP7-‐ICT-‐610889 FORGE project

Dr. Johann M. Marquez-‐Barja Research Fellow – Adjunct Lecturer Trinity College Dublin, Ireland [email protected] / www.marquez-‐barja.com

19 octubre 2015 Ins2tuto Tecnológico de Mexicali.

Mexicali, México

FORGE Keynote @ IT Mexicali, October 2015

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