Remote didactic laboratory "G. Savastano,"The Italian experience for E-Learning at the technical universities in the field of electrical and electronic measurement: Architecture and optimization of the communication performance based on thin client technology

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1124-1134

  Andria, Gregorio ^a   Baccigalupi, Aldo ^b   Borsic, Mladen ^c   Carbone, Paolo ^d   Daponte, Pasquale ^e   De Capua, Claudio ^f   Ferrero, Alessandro ^g   Grimaldi, Domenico ^h   Liccardo, Annalisa ^b   Locci, Nicola ⁱ   Lanzolla, Anna Maria Lucia ^a   Macii, David ^j   Muscas, Carlo ⁱ   Peretto, Lorenzo ^k   Petri, Dario ^j   Rapuano, Sergio ^e   Riccio, Maria ^l   Salicone, Simona ^g   Stefani, F ^d  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^g POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^l Didagroup SpA   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Instrumentation and measurement education; Learning management system; Remote learning; Remote measurement laboratory; Thin client paradigm; Virtual systems

Indexed keywords

INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT EDUCATION; LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; REMOTE LEARNING; THIN CLIENT PARADIGM;

OPTIMIZATION; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; STUDENTS; TEACHING; VIRTUAL REALITY; WEB SERVICES;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 34547866042     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2007.899983     Document Type: Article

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