A Remote Hands-on Exercise Environment for an Asia-Wide Real-Time Workshop

Authors:
Achmad Basuki;Achmad H. Thamrin;Keiko Okawa;Jun Murai
Affiliations:
Keio University, Japan;Keio University, Japan;Keio University, Japan;Keio University, Japan
Venue:
SAINT-W '07 Proceedings of the 2007 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet Workshops
Year:
2007

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Abstract

This paper discusses the problems of conducting a real-time workshop, where the instructors and the participants are located in different places, and the participants should perform hands-on lab exercises using computers that are located in another place. To address this problem, we implemented a remote hands-on exercise environment using virtual machines and a low-bandwidth remote console access. In this environment, the instructors can monitor each participant's exercise progress thus they can give specific feedbacks to the participants. We evaluated this environment using a real-time online workshop. We found that it was easy to setup, and participants had a good user-experience using this environment.