A Remote Laboratory Architecture for Agile Learning

The objective of this paper is to design and develop a new concept for an educational platform, where the focus is to engage students into learning by shifting the current paradigm of learning methodologies, enabling new ways to organize information into a more intuitive fashion, leveraging the usage of gamification techniques, and the power of social networks.

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