The advances in knowledge, methods and techniques associated to the field of information and communication technologies (ICT) are allowing significant changes in the educational practice. The applications are a lot and they allow to increase the capacity in ranges of distance communication, to guide the student in his decisions through techniques of artificial intelligence, and to develop efficient and trustful mechanisms of asynchronous communication among others. In this context, the Learning Management Systems (LMS) widely spread among the educational institutions, are highlighted. However, these systems, as they are known today, become limited when they have to provide distance education in the field of scientific-technologic disciplines with an experimental base. On this matter, it is true that purely practical activities of such technical fields as Engineering, do not find in LMS an overall solution. This problem is solved by the remote laboratorios; but it is highly convenient for the student to have access and perform real experimental practices in remote laboratories from the same system LMS. According to these fundamentals, and as a result of a joint venture company- university, it is carrying out a project that aims the integration of Remote Laboratory of Electronic Physics, fully developed at the National University of Rosario, with the LMS developed by the company e-ducativa. In this paper the authors describe the progress achieved in the project.

1. Integración de plataforma de e-learning y
laboratorio remoto para la realización a
distancia de prácticas experimentales
reales en la educación tecnológica
F. Lerro1; S. Marchisio1; S. Martini2; H. Massacesi2;
E. Perretta1; A. Gimenez2; N. Aimetti2; J.I. Oshiro2
1 Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura
Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
2 "e-ducativa", Rosario, Argentina
WEEF2012 Conference - Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 15 - October 18, 2012

2. Integración de plataforma de e-learning y laboratorio remoto para la realización a
distancia de prácticas experimentales reales en la educación tecnológica
• Description
– The Remote Laboratory
Applications and Functions
– The e-ducativa LMS
Characteristics and Functions
– Integration
The characteristics of the implementation
– Future projects
WEEF2012 Conference - Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 15 - October 18, 2012
F. Lerro; S. Marchisio; S. Martini; H. Massacesi;
E. Perretta; A. Gimenez; N. Aimetti; J.I. Oshiro

3.  The Remote Laboratory
Applications and Functions
 The e-ducativa LMS
Characteristics and
Functions
 Integration
The characteristics of the
implementation
 Future projects
Integración de plataforma de e-learning y laboratorio remoto para la realización a
distancia de prácticas experimentales reales en la educación tecnológica
WEEF2012 Conference - Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 15 - October 18, 2012
F. Lerro; S. Marchisio; S. Martini; H. Massacesi;
E. Perretta; A. Gimenez; N. Aimetti; J.I. Oshiro
Characteristics
 Easy to use
 No need to install plug-in or application (HTML based)
 Multiplatform
 Users are registered
 Previous tests accessible at any time

4.  The Remote Laboratory
Applications and Functions
 The e-ducativa LMS
Characteristics and
Functions
 Integration
The characteristics of the
implementation
 Future projects
Integración de plataforma de e-learning y laboratorio remoto para la realización a
distancia de prácticas experimentales reales en la educación tecnológica
WEEF2012 Conference - Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 15 - October 18, 2012
F. Lerro; S. Marchisio; S. Martini; H. Massacesi;
E. Perretta; A. Gimenez; N. Aimetti; J.I. Oshiro
Functions
 Test several semiconductors (Zener diode, BJT, J-Fet,
LED, Phototransistor)
 Different connections
 Compare different curves
 Export results to Excel and graphics

5.  The Remote Laboratory
Applications and Functions
 The e-ducativa LMS
Characteristics and
Functions
 Integration
The characteristics of the
implementation
 Future projects
Integración de plataforma de e-learning y laboratorio remoto para la realización a
distancia de prácticas experimentales reales en la educación tecnológica
WEEF2012 Conference - Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 15 - October 18, 2012
F. Lerro; S. Marchisio; S. Martini; H. Massacesi;
E. Perretta; A. Gimenez; N. Aimetti; J.I. Oshiro
E-ducativa LMS
 Multi-platform (Windows, Linux, Solaris, Unix)
 Multi-Language (Spanish, English, Portuguese, Italian)
 Developed in Perl+MySQL
 Compatible SCORM

6.  The Remote Laboratory
Applications and Functions
 The e-ducativa LMS
Characteristics and
Functions
 Integration
The characteristics of the
implementation
 Future projects
Integración de plataforma de e-learning y laboratorio remoto para la realización a
distancia de prácticas experimentales reales en la educación tecnológica
WEEF2012 Conference - Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 15 - October 18, 2012
F. Lerro; S. Marchisio; S. Martini; H. Massacesi;
E. Perretta; A. Gimenez; N. Aimetti; J.I. Oshiro
Functions
 User profiles (teacher, administrator, student,
assistant, tutor, guest)
 Groups (distance course, postgraduate, investigation,
teaching, working group)
 Simple interface
 Student’s self check of performance
 Reports
 Schedule of events
Communication
 E-mail
 Discussion forums
 Chat rooms
 Videoconference

7.  The Remote Laboratory
Applications and Functions
 The e-ducativa LMS
Characteristics and
Functions
 Integration
The characteristics of the
implementation
 Future projects
Integración de plataforma de e-learning y laboratorio remoto para la realización a
distancia de prácticas experimentales reales en la educación tecnológica
WEEF2012 Conference - Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 15 - October 18, 2012
F. Lerro; S. Marchisio; S. Martini; H. Massacesi;
E. Perretta; A. Gimenez; N. Aimetti; J.I. Oshiro
Objectives
 Unification of authentication
 Security
 New user interface for the Remote Laboratory
 User management from the LMS
 Content management from the Remote Laboratory
 Reports included on the LMS

8.  The Remote Laboratory
Applications and Functions
 The e-ducativa LMS
Characteristics and
Functions
 Integration
The characteristics of the
implementation
 Future projects
Integración de plataforma de e-learning y laboratorio remoto para la realización a
distancia de prácticas experimentales reales en la educación tecnológica
WEEF2012 Conference - Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 15 - October 18, 2012
F. Lerro; S. Marchisio; S. Martini; H. Massacesi;
E. Perretta; A. Gimenez; N. Aimetti; J.I. Oshiro
Implementation
Activity
Access to
the activity
Input parameters
Processed input
parameters
Hexadecimal string RC4
String RC4
RC4 (string, key)
String
The test is
performed
Realization
The
realization is
generated
Output parameters
results,Images
and pdf are generated
associated to
the test ID
PDF
+
observations The results are sent to the platform
TEST RESULTS
Access to
the laboratory
e-ducativa
platform Remote
Laboratory
ACCESS
Results
<Test ID>.pdf
<Test ID>.png
Decryption
The associated PDF is obtained
Encryption
they are used for

9.  The Remote Laboratory
Applications and Functions
 The e-ducativa LMS
Characteristics and
Functions
 Integration
The characteristics of the
implementation
 Future projects
Integración de plataforma de e-learning y laboratorio remoto para la realización a
distancia de prácticas experimentales reales en la educación tecnológica
WEEF2012 Conference - Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 15 - October 18, 2012
F. Lerro; S. Marchisio; S. Martini; H. Massacesi;
E. Perretta; A. Gimenez; N. Aimetti; J.I. Oshiro
Operation
 Teacher creates new activity for the student using LMS
 Checks on the “Manage with Remote Laboratory”
option
 Activity is available for student
 Student executes the activity. Remote laboratory is
opened and already logged in
 Student can add comments. A report is generated
with results and sent to the LMS.

10.  The Remote Laboratory
Applications and Functions
 The e-ducativa LMS
Characteristics and
Functions
 Integration
The characteristics of the
implementation
 Future projects
Integración de plataforma de e-learning y laboratorio remoto para la realización a
distancia de prácticas experimentales reales en la educación tecnológica
WEEF2012 Conference - Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 15 - October 18, 2012
F. Lerro; S. Marchisio; S. Martini; H. Massacesi;
E. Perretta; A. Gimenez; N. Aimetti; J.I. Oshiro
Operation
 http://labremf4a.fceia.unr.edu.ar
 http://laboratorioremoto.educativa.org

11.  The Remote Laboratory
Applications and Functions
 The e-ducativa LMS
Characteristics and
Functions
 Integration
The characteristics of the
implementation
 Future projects
Integración de plataforma de e-learning y laboratorio remoto para la realización a
distancia de prácticas experimentales reales en la educación tecnológica
WEEF2012 Conference - Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 15 - October 18, 2012
F. Lerro; S. Marchisio; S. Martini; H. Massacesi;
E. Perretta; A. Gimenez; N. Aimetti; J.I. Oshiro
Conclusions
 The integration protocol was effective
 Is simple to implement
 Can be adapted to different LMS
 New options can be added (selection of tests from the
LMS)
 Makes the Lab easily available for a large number of
institutions that already has e-ducativa LMS

12. Integración de plataforma de e-learning y
laboratorio remoto para la realización a
distancia de prácticas experimentales
reales en la educación tecnológica
F. Lerro1; S. Marchisio1; S. Martini2; H. Massacesi2;
E. Perretta1; A. Gimenez2; N. Aimetti2; J.I. Oshiro2
1 Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura
Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
2 "e-ducativa", Rosario, Argentina
WEEF2012 Conference - Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 15 - October 18, 2012