Teacher training plan for engineering online laboratories composition

Abstract

Laboratory practices are a very important component in the training of engineers. Deficiencies in the training of engineering students generate deficiencies in the quality of graduates, these deficiencies are generated because higher education institutions do not have the infrastructure required to carry out student training processes, common reasons are: lack of budget for acquire the equipment, lack of space for the deployment of the equipment, high costs associated with maintenance and operation, etc. LACCEI in conjunction with the OAS and the company Lab in a Window developed a strategy to facilitate collaboration in Latin America and the Caribbean on the subject of online laboratories. As a result of this collaboration, an international network has been established for low-cost access and exchange of access to laboratory infrastructures that are adapted for access and control through the Internet. This initiative includes free access to LACCEI members to an online platform that offers access to online laboratories (virtual remotes and hybrids), these members can also share laboratory experiments in exchange for receiving access to other experiments that other participating institutions offer in the system. This work presents a training plan for teachers of Engineering courses on how to compose online laboratories using Smart Laboratory Learning Objects (SLLO) created by a composer. In this case we specifically use the composer module of the SARL system.