{"id":10253,"date":"2023-03-15T15:55:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T15:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.vnuhcm.edu.vn\/?p=10253"},"modified":"2024-03-25T23:25:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T23:25:46","slug":"vlab-a-cloud-based-lab-environment-for-it-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.vnuhcm.edu.vn\/index.php\/en\/2023\/03\/15\/vlab-a-cloud-based-lab-environment-for-it-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"vLab – A cloud-based lab environment for IT learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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In the context of Education 4.0, the current traditional practical teaching and learning approach for IT subjects in most universities and training institutions faces challenges. Especially, since 2020, the world has witnessed the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, leading to social distancing policies and the shift of classes to online platforms. This exacerbates the difficulty and limitations of traditional hands-on classes, prompting the urgent need for online systems supporting doing laboratory. These online practical systems or virtual laboratories should enable learners to experience and practice skills as they would on physical equipment without encountering any difficulties.<\/p>

Meanwhile, online laboratories or teaching environments can be built by means of virtualization cloud computing platforms. In doing so, educational institutions will reap significant benefits in terms of synthesizing learning information and providing useful suggestions and recommendations for both learners and instructors. Through the application of cloud computing, AI, Big Data, and IoT technologies, instructors can collect, analyze, and accurately assess learner data; remotely monitor learning processes, assess task completion levels, and inform learning outcomes to students and their families. Furthermore, automation technology can potentially replace instructors in some administrative tasks such as attendance tracking, grading, lesson preparation, and theoretical teaching support. This enables learners to access standardized curricula tailored to individual competencies without constraints of time and space in their learning process.<\/p>

In general, the main objectives of a virtual laboratory for IT learning can be summarized as follows.<\/p>

Remote access support:<\/strong> this feature allows learners to proactively schedule their study time and access the practical environment from anywhere.<\/p>

Lab exercises customization: <\/strong>lab exercises can be modified conveniently via a friendly GUI to meet the specific requirements of subjects or users.<\/p>

Course management and evaluation: <\/strong>instructors can create and manage their classes with multiple learners in the form of resource-shared groups, while enabling learning process tracking and automatic evaluation.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The proposed virtual lab environment \u2013 vLab leverages cloud computing platform to provide resources for lab exercise to overcome the weakness of current traditional teaching approach as well as meet the required goals of a virtual laboratory.<\/p>

In more details, vLab is designed with the following features:<\/p>