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The LabMentors," Virtual Lab Infrastructure"
Background
The challenge in providing an online training program involves
offering the same hands-on experience online that students have come to expect in
a physical classroom. This is particularly true in providing online lab exercises
for Information Technology based curriculum. Simulations provide some of this functionality,
but they are often poor substitutes for real hands-on learning which has been proven
to be most effective in building and maintaining comprehension and retention.
Challenges To Providing Online Labs
- Rising delivery costs.
- Geographically dispersed end-user population.
- Geographically dispersed end-user population.
- Several powerful computers and a network to build and maintain.
- Students need administrative access to real servers/networks.
- Students will need to experiment, thus altering these servers/networks.
- All students need to begin with the same, base configuration and since each student
is altering the configuration within the online lab, the resources they are working
on cannot just be handed over to the next student.
- How to determine whether outcomes/objectives have been met (marking or grading student activity).
- Providing on-going support during class and after hours.
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LabMentors Solution
Fortunately, you can now provide real network, operating system, and application
labs in a virtual world that are not only cost-effective and flexible - they empower
your organization to architect almost any real physical lab scenario without all
the real physical costs. Benefits of the LabMentors solution include :
- No need to provide physical machines for every student.
- Provide access to 1000's of dollars worth of networking & equipment to many simultaneously - at a fraction of the cost.
- No physical access restrictions - students can 'enter' the lab from their browsers at home, school, work at almost any time.
- All maintenance is performed centrally by LabMentors maintenance bots.
- Central control of computer and networking labs.
- Student's machines are isolated from each other: they cannot adversely affect each other. All changes made by the student while in the lab are erased instantly for the next student using that 'machine'.
- Verify lab objectives in real time and store or email results (automatically marked lab exercises).
- Instructor or mentor can watch, support and take control of user's machine where required.
- Scalable infrastructure.
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LabMentors solution includes a modular, web-based application to manage access to
the online laboratory environment. It provides an environment under which designers
have the ability to rapidly deploy new lab exercises, integrate new lab exercises
into LabMentors' scalable delivery platform with ease.
For more information, click on the pdf icons.
For enquiries on how you can have this service integrated into your education platform,
Please Contact Edaxis : info@edaxis.in
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