Coping with collaborative and competitive episodes within collaborative remote laboratories

In this paper, we provide an original approach to the support of group awareness within collaborative remote laboratories. Computer Supported Collaborative Learning sessions present successively collaborative and emulation episodes. The idea developed here is the elaboration of an architecture for dealing with those two aspects of collaborative sessions for practical remote hands-on approaches. Our purpose is to manage and enhance the learning experience brought to the students who are using collaborative remote laboratories by managing several synchronous accesses made on the remote laboratories platform itself. This contribution relies on an original domain ontology and the associated knowledge management system.

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