Content management and architectural issues of a remote learning laboratory
Markus Wulff, Patrick Lauer, Torsten Ingo Braun · Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern) · 2008
Internet-based distance learning requires an efficient development and management of learning material. It should be re-usable and it is necessary to keep the con-tent in an open and portable format. The infrastructure is expected to be available day and night. Users may access the experimentation setup from every Internet-connected work place at any time. Therefore, reliable hard- and software configurations must be used, which demand a low management over-head at the same time. This article presents concepts and implementation that solve these issues for a remote hands-on networking laboratory. Concepts for reducing the management overhead, and increasing the availability of a remote laboratory through virtualisation are presented. Fur-thermore, a content formatting tool to support sustain-ability of the course material is introduced. 1.