Xuemin Chen

In this paper, we present a scalable remote laboratory based on the improved novel unified framework. To implement the scalable remote laboratory, a scalable global remote laboratory architecture is designed. A new Scheduler Web Server (SWS) and a new federated authentication system are developed. To give end users a more user-friendly interface, the new perspective user interface is also designed and implemented. Through the remote experiments based on the improved unified framework, students can obtain the effect more vivid and real-time experimental operation to improve the engineering knowledge learning. The established scalable remote laboratory has demonstrated the efficiency of the improved unified framework. This novel, user-friendly, improved unified framework will also significantly benefit remote laboratory development in the future.

In recent years, cross-platform mobile applications gaining rapidly popularity with the fast development of HTML5 technology. Web apps and hybrid apps are two major technologies for cross-platform further development in various areas. More and more people are likely spent more time on E-learning with better user experience and responsive applications like native apps and hybrid apps. However, native apps is one multi-platform approach rather than cross-platform solutions. In this paper, we develop the cross-platform hybrid applications for real-time remote experiment based on unified remote experiment framework and unified rendering engine. With the unified framework and unified rendering engine, users can perform the real-time remote experiment at any platforms with hybrid apps.