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Abstract
Lab courses play a critical role in scientific and engineering education. In addition to traditional Hands-on labs, modern technology has originated two other types of labs: Simulated and Remote labs. Different educational objectives (Conceptual understanding, Design skills, Social skills, and Professional skills) are used as criteria for judging the effectiveness of each of the three types of labs. Remote laboratories embody an attractive solution to conduct live experiments from any location, resulting in time saving and reduction of costs for measurement instruments, and technical personnel. Remote laboratories are becoming widely accepted in universities for providing distance education and for augmenting traditional laboratories. There is a lot of interest in remote laboratories from pedagogical and economical point of view. The thesis addresses a wide area of problems occurring in conjunction with remote laboratory experiments. It then presents the hardware (HW) and software (SW) tools necessary for building a general framework for remote laboratory system that allows performing experiments controlled across the Internet via web interface as well as locally in the classroom. In addition, it introduces enhancements for the remote lab activities leading to improving its performance. Case studies are implemented for equipping the proposed lab with electronic kits like, FPGA kit, Microcontroller (elevator kit), Irrigation kit, and wireless sensor network mote to validate the feasibility of the proposed framework. In addition, an Open Architecture wireless sensor node (mote) for controlling the environmental conditions of the remote laboratory is implemented for sensing the lab conditions (temperature, humidity, light, etc.) and behaving accordingly. We develop a dedicated tiny Real-time Operating System to control the operation of the wireless sensor motes base Open Architecture. Finally, we develop a Fuzzy logic Controller for some applications of the Remotely Accessible Lab Kits. In conclusion, the proposed system narrows the gap between research and practice and defines a Context-aware learning (CAL) to be anytime, anywhere, and anything for the first time and introduces a hardware open architecture that enables seamless plugging in of any experimental kit with the remote laboratory access protocol in a situated environment for context-aware learning.