[phoenix-project] Re: Fwd: Re: An interesting "virtual lab" setup
- From: ck raju <ck.thrissur@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: phoenix-project@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 09:31:21 +0530
Dear Pramode,
I guess the operational requirements and the evaluation needs of a
MOOC environment from the point of view of a MOOC-administrator are
not clearly understood by many.
Are you offering one ? Would be eager to sign for the 6th certificate...
Happy new year and warm regards,
On 31/12/2013, Shashidharan Nair <ck.shashidharan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just remembered, there was a little online demo in this line by Dr Ajith
> sometime back, in the phoenix era. I just dug out this post for reference
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ajith Kumar <ajith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 16 December 2007 13:42
> Subject: [phoenix-project] Re: online phoenix
> To: phoenix-project@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Arani Chakravarti wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I think one of the most important uses of the web-based effort would
> be to teach people how to do the same with their own lab set-up, i.e.
> the CGI or other programmes, etc. I had a Ph.D. student who was a
> school teacher (he is with us now). He could not come to the lab every
> day. The web-based approach would allow him to use his slow dial-up
> connection from his home to check the status of the run and vary
> parameters (temperature, closeness of data points, etc.) from time
> to time. This then becomes an enabling technology which opens up
> lab experimentation to people who are far away. Collaborators can
> also participate in such experiments from different locations. I request
> Ajith to make the code available on-line
>
> This is how it is done.
> A user named apache is created.
> Apache web server is installed. Under Slackware the document root is
> /vwr/www/htdocs and the 'cgi-script' directory
> is /var/www-cgi-bin.
> A user named apache is created with '/var/www/htdocs' as home directory.
> The program <http://www.iuac.res.in/phoenix/cap.py>is kept is cgi-bin
> directory. It needs a bit of polishing.
> That's all about it.
> This will be included in the next version of the Phoenix Live CD so that
> people can try it out by running it on their LAN,
> To run on the net you need a static IP address.
>
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> ajith
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> and to write a tutorial on
> this; I know he is very busy, but please ..
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> Arani
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> On 30 December 2013 23:06, Pramode C.E <mail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Georges Khaznadar <
>> georges.khaznadar@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> Pramode C.E a écrit :
>>> > Check out:
>>> >
>>> > http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/december/lab-ina-box-120613.html
>>>
>>> The ideas about remote experiments are always very interesting, and
>>> specially in the educational context.
>>>
>>> However I strongly disagree with the "advance" presented in this
>>> e-paper: when results from a real experiment are casted into a static
>>> collection of documents, the work that students can do with it is only
>>> documentary or encyclopedic work; it is intisically different from
>>> performing an experiment, even if you try to mix it with the MOOC hype.
>>>
>>
>> I too have my reservations regarding this; but then, in a MOOC context,
>> we
>> are
>> talking of tens of thousands of students - it would be really tough to
>> give ALL these
>> participants remote access to real, physical experimental apparatus.
>>
>>>
>>> My intuition is that we should give our students an opportunity to
>>> create
>>> remotely accessible experiments by themselves; such an experiment
>>> ultimately costs an expEyes box, a webcam, a network-enabled computer
>>> (no keyboard, no mouse, no display) and a network access, plus a few
>>> external components to do the physics.
>>>
>>
>> This is the ideal situation - but the question again remains as to how do
>> we give simultaneous access to a very large number of people?
>>
>> regards,
>> pramode
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>>
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CK Raju
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