CICLOPE CHEMICAL: A REMOTE LABORATORY TO CONTROL A SPECTROGRAPH

This paper presents an educational chemical laboratory accessible through the Internet. Its aim is providing remote access to a real spectrograph in order students carry out their practicals on distance, without restrictions of space or time, as if they were in the lab. Furthermore, teachers have full control of what students are doing, which is useful to evaluate. This lab has been used and tested with students of the 4th year of the Industrial Engineering School (ETSII) of the Spanish Open University UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia). The system uses Ciclope architecture, methodology and philosophy, which is intended for building remote labs as libre projects. This means that all the software used and made, and the hardware developed in this project is free under the GPL license and it is available in SVN server of Ciclope project web page (http://www.ciclope.info). Furthermore, any person who would like to use, copy, imitate, modify, improve or collaborate with this project, or with any other of Ciclope, can do it following the instructions in Ciclope's URL.