Remote laboratories have emerged as a viable addition to the tools supporting experiential learning. The advent of Remote Laboratory Management Systems (RLMSs) has allowed several integrated heterogeneous remote laboratories, developed with various technologies, to be administrated and accessed through a common portal. A key benefit arising from the ability to access the laboratories remotely through RLMSs is the opportunity to share laboratory resources across multiple institutions. This sharing is, however, restricted by the inability of a contemporary RLMS installed at an institution to communicate with other RLMS installed at other institution. In this paper we propose a novel Application Programming Interface (API) design pattern for intercommunication between RLMSs accommodating different levels of functional support a...
David B. Lowe, Herbert Yeung, Mohamed Tawfik, Elio