Remote Laboratories support within Teaching and Learning Activities

The concepts of learning and teaching appear somehow mixed although their use emphasizes who is at the center of the process. Bologna Declaration has put the stress on the “What students do?” paradigm, shifting the center of the process to the student. Such paradigm also supports life long learning objectives. The remote laboratory concept provides a tool to sustain this shift towards a student-centric teaching approach. However, in engineering education, this means an additional stress on laboratories, as a result from the pressure to increase experimentation, and raises the question: how to handle overcrowded laboratories? Remote labs present a solution to this problem, allowing students to access experiments without time and location restrictions. Index Terms — e-learning, remote labs.