SPEAKERS
Online Laboratories: We Bring the Lab to You
Mark Schulz
The presentation gives an overview of online laboratories (sometimes referred to as remote laboratories). These laboratories provide online access to experiments on a 24.7 basis for students all over the world. The iLab architecture developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the 1990s is still the major software architecture in the area. Further developments continue to evolve, now with contributors from teams of developers in universities around the world. A sample of existing iLab experiments are presented in the talk to illustrate the diverse domains being addressed. The talk closes with a hint of some of the future enhancements to iLab that are being researched.
 | Mark Schulz's Biography Dr Schulz has worked as a computer consultant in both the UK and in Australia; also for a short time, as a research scientist for the Australian Atomic Energy Commission at Lucas Heights. Dr Schulz has been on the staff of the several universities in the UK and Australia, including The University of Queensland where he has worked since 1987. Until 2008 he was an academic teaching digital system design in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering. Since mid 2008 he has been the Associate Director in the research Centre for Educational Innovation and Technology (CEIT) at the University of Queensland. From 2005-2008 he was the Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) iCampus Learning Outreach program in Australia, assisting in the transfer of the technology developed under the MIT iCampus project to the Australian higher education sector. His current research interests are in the areas of remote/online laboratories and real time data messaging. Dr Schulz works with teams from around the world, and in this context is Chair of the Education Group in Global Online Laboratories Consortium (GOLC). |
