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(1)Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l’Informatica, Laboratorio ITEM, (2)Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, (3)Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia – UDR Napoli,(4)Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica,Università di Napoli Federico II
GIREP Seminar
2003
Until few years ago students, whose high-school had an experimental laboratory, spent almost all their laboratory time sharing just one physics experiment with other ten friends, and so they usually lived as simple spectators their laboratory experiences.
Our epoch has given the birth of a new opportunity in the field of the formation, whose characteristic is that to be a distributed formation, that is fundamentally not dependent from the time and from the space of the learning system, on the contrary projected and adapted to the necessities and possibility of the students.
The present contribution will explain the progress of research activities and on-going experimentation within the project LABNET2 of the Italian Interuniversity Computer Science Consortium (CINI) in the National Laboratory for Multimedia Informatics and Telematics (ITEM) in Naples.
Current research activities are concerned with the remote management of laboratories, accessible to students and moreover with the control of Physics Laboratory “LAFIDIN” of the Engineering Faculty of University of Naples “Federico II”.
The core of present work will explain the state of the art of an innovative web architecture RELAX (REmote LAb eXperiences Distributed) . Through it students can perform experiments and they can control laboratory physics experiments via internet through usually known web pages.
The spontaneity and the absence of any mediation in autonomous experimentation of students, with this system of remote management, contributes to stimulate interest and curiosity, facilitating the acquisition of new concepts. The students under these conditions is surprisingly stimulated to produce original ideas and to try different approaches.
The suggested solutions and the experimentations in research activities will bring to a network of decentralized laboratories. Internet will allow the sharing of experimental equipments, knowledges, teachers, cross experiences between local and remote laboratory, and will offer a new remarkable cooperative distance learning opportunity.